title: Improving alcoholism treatment across the spectrum of services.
abstract: This article represents the proceedings of a symposium at the 2000 RSA Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The chair was Michael E. Hilton. The presentations were (1) The effects of brief advice and motivational enhancement on alcohol use and related variables in primary care, by Stephen A. Maisto, Joseph Conigliaro, Melissa McNiel, Kevin Kraemer, Mary E. Kelley, and Rosemarie Conigliaro; (2) Enhanced linkage of alcohol dependent persons to primary medical care: A randomized controlled trial of a multidisciplinary health evaluation in a detoxification unit, by Jeffrey H. Samet, Mary Jo Larson, Jacqueline Savetsky, Michael Winter, Lisa M. Sullivan, and Richard Saitz; (3) Cost-effectiveness of day hospital versus traditional alcohol and drug outpatient treatment in a health maintenance organization: Randomized and self-selected samples, by Constance Weisner, Jennifer Mertens, Sujaya Parthasarathy, Charles Moore, Enid Hunkeler, Teh-Wei Hu, and Joe Selby; and (4) Case monitoring for alcoholics: One year clinical and health cost effects, by Robert L. Stout, William Zywiak, Amy Rubin, William Zwick, Mary Jo Larson, and Don Shepard.
authors.affiliation: NIAAA, Division of Clinical/Prevention Research, Rockville, Maryland, USA. mhilton@willco.niaaa.hin.gov
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Hilton
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Maisto
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Conigliaro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McNiel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kraemer
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Kelley
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Conigliaro
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Samet
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Larson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Savetsky
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Winter
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saitz
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weisner
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mertens
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parthasarathy
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hunkeler
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Selby
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Stout
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zywiak
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rubin
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zwick
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shepard
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000191:economics / Q000628:therapy*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D011788:Quality of Life; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D016896:Treatment Outcome