http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Physicians often fail to ask high school-aged patients about alcohol use and to advise young people to reduce or stop drinking, according to a study led by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-opportunities-underage-alcohol-screening.html Pediatrics Tue, 05 Feb 2013 06:20:29 EST news279267621 Without other risk factors, all Americans born between 1945 and 1965 should have a one-time screening for the hepatitis C virus (HCV) according to new recommendations being published early online today in Annals of Internal Medicine, the flagship journal of the American College of Physicians. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also recommends that all persons identified with HCV should receive a brief alcohol screening and intervention and be referred to appropriate care and treatment services for HCV and related conditions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-cdc-hepatitis-screening.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:17:53 EST news264341842 According to the results of a new study published in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons, patients who score highest on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test–Consumption (AUDIT-C) experience longer postoperative hospital stays and more days in the intensive care unit (ICU); they are also more likely to return to the operating room (OR) within 30 days of a surgical procedure than patients with low AUDIT-C scores. As a result, study authors determined alcohol screening could be used to identify patients at risk for increased postoperative use of health care resources. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-patients-high-alcohol-screening-scores.html Surgery Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:28:00 EST news250860462 The U.S. Joint Commission recently approved new hospital accreditation measures related to alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) for all hospitalized patients. Yet little is known about the effectiveness of brief interventions (BIs) or inpatient acceptability of SBIRT when performed by healthcare professionals other than physicians. A new study has found high hospital-patient acceptability of and comfort with nurse-delivered SBIRT. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-hospitalized-patients-nurse-delivered-alcohol-interventions.html Health Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:00:07 EST news245930079