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Alcohol and illicit drug positive patients were identified using prospectively gathered substance use data from a study sample comprising 2,872 patients included from November 2016 to December 2017 at an internal medicine hospital in Oslo, Norway. These data were unknown to hospital staff. Whether physicians recorded quantitative substance use assessments and interventions was examined in patients with study-verified alcohol use in excess of low-risk guidelines (Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test-4 scores [AUDIT-4] of \u22655 for women and \u22657 for men) and\/or illicit drug use (one or more illicit drug detected by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry [LC-MS] analysis). Among 548 study-verified alcohol-positive patients, physicians documented quantity and frequency (QF) of use in 43.2% (n = 237) and interventions in 22.0% (n = 121). 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