Behavioral health risk factor profiles in general hospital patients: identifying the need for screening and brief intervention.

Two in three patients require interventions targeting two or more HRFs. The findings help to develop screening and brief intervention for patients with specific health risk profiles, that can reach most patients, including those most in need and those most hard to reach, with socio-economically disadvantaged people in particular. REGISTRY: clinicaltrials.gov: NCT01291693.