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Date:11/5/2009

tive in many populations in reducing drug and alcohol use but has never been used in a HIV primary care setting. With several studies showing a relationship between high HIV transmission risk behaviors and drug and alcohol use, effective administration of the SBIRT strategy could also reduce HIV transmission according to the project team.

The project will compare SBIRT delivered through a self-administered and web-based method using patients' electronic health records with SBIRT delivered through a provider-administered protocol during clinic appointments using an electronic health record system.

"We want to see if the SBIRT approach will work in this population and this setting to not only reduce drug and alcohol use but also succeed in reducing HIV transmission associated with substance use. We are hoping to find out whether patients are more open to responding to sensitive topics with a self-administered web-based approach than they are talking directly with their clinician," said Carol Dawson-Rose, PhD, MSN, RN, associate professor of nursing at the UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies.

Both studies use HERO (Health Care Evaluation Record Organizer), a web-based electronic medical record system and research database developed by Kahn and T. Van Nunnery, a programmer/analyst at UCSF, and myHERO. Integrated with HERO, myHERO is a publicly-accessible personal health record enabling patients to access information online from their own medical record. This complete electronic health record system is secure, flexible, extensible, and is exportable to other clinical care venues.

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Contact: Jeff Sheehy jsheehy@ari.ucsf.edu 415-597-8165 University of California - San Francisco Source:Eurekalert

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