Incentivising, facilitating, and implementing an oYce tobacco cessation system
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Incentivising, facilitating, and implementing an office tobacco cessation system.
Although the development and publication of a national evidence based clinical guideline for smoking cessation from the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) has clarified the approach that should be used in medical practice settings, clinicians are still a long way from following it consistently. Cromwell et al have studied the cost eVectiveness of applying the recommendations in ...
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