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INTERVENTION BY AN ALCOHOL HEALTH WORKER IN AN ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT
Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine. St Mary's Hospital NHS Trust Praed Street. London W2 1NY
1Substance Misuse Services, North West London Mental Health NHS Trust UK
2Imperial College School of Medicine, University of London UK
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Received 13 February 1998; first review notified 8 May 1998; accepted 3 June 1998
We have evaluated the effect of brief intervention by an alcohol health worker on alcohol consumption by 202 alcohol misusing patients. For 71 patients where questionnaires were successfully completed, 46 (65%) reported drinking less alcohol at 6 months as opposed to six (8.5%) who reported drinking more. The overall reduction was statistically significant (P < 0.001), with a mean reduction of 43%.
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