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Tobacco Use Screening And Cessation Counseling In Primary Care, Jacob A. Heil
Tobacco Use Screening And Cessation Counseling In Primary Care, Jacob A. Heil
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Primary care providers (PCPs) are poised across healthcare settings to reduce the leading cause of preventable morbidity and mortality, cigarette smoking. However, their patients may not be screened for tobacco use and miss cessation counseling, thus increasing tobacco-related diseases, and incurring costs to healthcare payers.
PURPOSE: This project seeks to identify the documentation process in a new electronic health record (EHR), communicate efficacy barriers, administer an educational intervention regarding the new process for PCPs, and measure its impact on performance of tobacco use screening and cessation counseling.
METHODS: This project was a quasi-experimental, single center, pre- and post-interventional …