Strategies for Referring Cancer Patients in a Smoking Cessation Program
| Autor: | Jillian E. H. Dirkes, H. Scott Swartzwelder, Leah C. Thomas, James M. Davis |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 6089, p 6089 (2020) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Volume 17 Issue 17 |
| ISSN: | 1661-7827 1660-4601 |
| Popis: | Most people who smoke and develop cancer are unable to quit smoking. To address this, many cancer centers have now opened smoking cessation programs specifically designed to help cancer patients to quit. An important question has now emerged&mdash what is the most effective approach for engaging smokers within a cancer center in these smoking cessation programs? We report outcomes from a retrospective observational study comparing three referral methods&mdash traditional referral, best practice advisory (BPA), and direct outreach&mdash on utilization of the Duke Cancer Center Smoking Cessation Program. We found that program utilization rate was higher for direct outreach (5.4%) than traditional referral (0.8%), p < 0.001, and BPA (0.2%) p < 0.001. Program utilization was 6.4% for all methods combined. Inferring a causal relationship between referral method and program utilization was not possible because the study did not use a randomized design. Innovation is needed to generate higher utilization rates for cancer center smoking cessation programs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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