Smoking status as a vital sign
| Autor: | Ken Resnicow, Dennis Wallace, Cheryl A. Gibson, R. Emmet Kenney, Jasjit S. Ahluwalia |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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Adult
Counseling Male Gerontology medicine.medical_specialty Urban Population Health Status medicine.medical_treatment Vital signs Smoking Prevention Physical examination Intervention (counseling) Internal Medicine Humans Medicine Physical Examination Physician-Patient Relations Chi-Square Distribution medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Medical record Public health Sign (semiotics) Original Articles Middle Aged Black or African American Logistic Models Family medicine Smoking cessation Female Smoking Cessation Smoking status business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of General Internal Medicine. 14:402-408 |
| ISSN: | 1525-1497 0884-8734 |
| DOI: | 10.1046/j.1525-1497.1999.09078.x |
| Popis: | We conducted this study to determine if a smoking status stamp would prompt physicians to increase the number of times they ask, advise, assist, and arrange follow-up for African-American patients about smoking-related issues.An intervention study with a posttest assessment (after the physician visit) conducted over four 1-month blocks. The control period was the first 2 weeks of each month, while the following 2 weeks served as the intervention period.An adult walk-in clinic in a large inner-city hospital.We consecutively enrolled into the study 2,595 African-American patients (1,229 intervention and 1, 366 control subjects) seen by a housestaff physician.A smoking status stamp placed on clinic charts during the intervention period.Forty-five housestaff rotated through the clinic in 1-month blocks. In univariate analyses, patients were significantly more likely to be asked by their physicians if they smoke cigarettes during the intervention compared with the control period, 78.4% versus 45.6% (odds ratio [OR] 4.28; 95% confidence interval [CI] 3.58, 5.10). Patients were also more likely to be told by their physician to quit, 39.9% versus 26.9% (OR 1.81; 95% CI 1.36, 2.40), and have follow-up arranged, 12.3% versus 6.2% (OR 2.16; 95% CI 1.30, 3.38).The stamp had a significant effect on increasing rates of asking about cigarette smoking, telling patients to quit, and arranging follow-up for smoking cessation. However, the stamp did not improve the low rate at which physicians offered patients specific advice on how to quit or in setting a quit date. |
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