The European journal of general practice
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Impact of practice, provider and patient characteristics on delivering screening and brief advice for heavy drinking in primary healthcare: Secondary analyses of data from the ODHIN five-country cluster randomized factorial trial.
The implementation of primary healthcare-based screening and advice that is effective in reducing heavy drinking can be enhanced with training. ⋯ Training primary healthcare providers diminishes the negative impacts that some practice, provider and patient characteristics have on the likelihood of patients being screened and advised. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov. Trial identifier: NCT01501552.