This report describes how an urban private-teaching hospital adapted a protocol from an existing emergency department-based program to include patients treated by the trauma service. The hospital added screening and brief intervention and referral (SBIR) staff to their trauma outpatient clinic and to trauma morning rounds. This led to a screening rate increase from 12 to 71%. Trauma service staff and health educators reported high satisfaction with the program. Patients reported higher satisfaction with SBIR.

Sise MJ, Sise CB, Kelley DM, Simmons CW, Kelso DJ. Implementing screening, brief intervention, and referral for alcohol and drug use: the trauma service perspective. J Trauma. 2005 Sep;59(3 Suppl):S112-8; discussion S124-33.

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