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Brief interventions for alcohol in general practice
Encouraging results from the Scottish alcohol brief intervention programme
BMJ 2017; 356 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j1376 (Published 17 March 2017) Cite this as: BMJ 2017;356:j1376
- Peter Rice, chair
- Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems, Edinburgh EH2 1JQ, UK
- peter.rice{at}nhs.net
McCambridge and Saitz regrettably make no mention of the Scottish alcohol brief intervention programme in their otherwise authoritative review.1 One of their criticisms is that “uptake is often low.” In Scotland 569 792 brief interventions were recorded as delivered between 2008 and 2015, with an estimated 43% of the potential …
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