Warm Handoff Versus Fax Referral for Linking Hospitalized Smokers to Quitlines
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Warm Handoff Versus Fax Referral for Linking Hospitalized Smokers to Quitlines.
INTRODUCTION Few hospitals treat patients' tobacco dependence. To be effective, hospital-initiated cessation interventions must provide at least 1 month of supportive contact post-discharge. STUDY DESIGN Individually randomized clinical trial. Recruitment commenced July 2011; analyses were conducted October 2014-June 2015. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS The study was conducted in two large Midwestern...
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Post-discharge support is key to effective treatment for hospitalized smokers. The few hospitals that systematically address tobacco refer smokers via fax to tobacco quitlines, yet few smokers enroll. “Warm handoff” (direct referral by one provider to another provider) is used in some cases of tobacco screening and brief intervention (SBI) to link patients with treatment, but little data exists...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Preventive Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0749-3797
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2016.04.006