Implementation of evidence-based alcohol screening in the Veterans Health Administration.

Despite evidence-based guidelines, brief alcohol screening and counseling have not been routinely integrated into most primary care practices in the United States.To describe the results of the implementation of evidence-based alcohol screening by the Veterans Health Administration (VA) in 2004, as the first step toward implementation of brief alcohol counseling.This observational study of outpatients from all 21 VA networks relied on the...