The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA.
Matern Child Health J. 2014 Jan;18(1):1-9. doi: 10.1007/s10995-013-1257-2.
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy has negative implications for maternal and child health. Appropriate early universal Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for pregnant women is necessary to identify women at risk and reduce the likelihood of continued drinking. Because SBIRT is not consistently used, the development and use of performance measures to assure implementation of SBIRT are key steps towards intervention and reduction of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Practice guidelines provide ample support for specific instruments designed for SBIRT in prenatal care. An examination of existing performance measures related to alcohol consumption during pregnancy, however, reveals no comprehensive published performance measure designed to quantify the use of SBIRT for alcohol use in prenatal care. Process performance measures were developed that can determine the proportion of pregnant women who are screened during the course of prenatal care and the proportion of women requiring either brief intervention or referral to substance use disorder treatment who received those interventions. The measures require use of screening instruments validated for use with pregnant women. The two proposed measures would represent a significant step in efforts to assure appropriate intervention for women who drink during pregnancy, hold accountable providers who do not employ SBIRT, and provide a basis from which necessary systemic changes might occur. Pregnancy is a time when many women are motivated to stop drinking. That opportunity should be seized, with timely intervention offering assistance for pregnant women who have not stopped drinking of their own accord.
怀孕期间饮酒会对母婴健康产生负面影响。为了识别有风险的妇女并降低持续饮酒的可能性,对孕妇进行适当的早期普遍筛查、简短干预和转介治疗(SBIRT)是必要的。由于 SBIRT 并未得到一致应用,因此制定和使用绩效措施来确保 SBIRT 的实施是干预和减少怀孕期间饮酒的关键步骤。实践指南为产前护理中专门设计的 SBIRT 提供了充分的支持。然而,对与怀孕期间饮酒相关的现有绩效措施进行检查后发现,没有全面发布的绩效措施旨在量化产前护理中 SBIRT 用于酒精使用的情况。已经开发了过程绩效措施,可以确定在产前护理过程中接受筛查的孕妇比例,以及需要接受简短干预或转介至物质使用障碍治疗的妇女比例,并确定她们是否接受了这些干预措施。这些措施需要使用针对孕妇进行验证的筛查工具。这两项拟议措施将是确保对怀孕期间饮酒的妇女进行适当干预、追究未采用 SBIRT 的提供者责任以及为可能发生的必要系统变革提供基础的重要步骤。怀孕是许多女性有动力戒酒的时期。应该抓住这个机会,及时进行干预,为那些没有自行戒酒的孕妇提供帮助。