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Brief Intervention for Medical Inpatients with Unhealthy Alcohol Use
- Richard Saitz, MD, MPH;
- Tibor P. Palfai, PhD; and
- Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH
- From Boston University, Boston, MA 02118.
IN RESPONSE:
Drs. Bischof and Freyer-Adam did not correctly characterize the proportion of eligible participants who enrolled in our study. It was 65% (341 of 524 persons), which is remarkably high for an alcohol brief intervention trial. Readiness to change, AUDIT, and many other alcohol severity–related characteristics were similar in those enrolled, those eligible who did not enroll, and those with risky use who were ineligible (1).
Our trial had fewer exclusion criteria than most trials (2), and readiness was not among them. Nonetheless, many of our participants …
