The aim of the Practice Improvement to Address Adolescent Substance Use (PIAASU) project was to support pediatric practices in using SBIRT as part of health supervision visits and appropriate acute care visits to improve and sustain the implementation of substance use prevention, detection, assessment, and intervention practices to improve the overall health and safety of adolescents ages 11 through 21. A quality improvement approach was implemented to identify and support practice changes based on the identification of key drivers to support SBIRT.
Key drivers are broad, evidence-based and best-practice actions that can be useful in the development of more specific ideas for changes that lead to improvement and are paired with interventions.
Interventions are specific ideas for changing a process; they can be rapidly tested on a small scale to determine whether they result in improvements in a particular context or environment. To support making changes, evidence or practice-based tools and resources were paired with the intervention(s).
Key Driver Diagram
The Practice Improvement to Address Adolescent Substance Use project was funded by generous support from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.