Benefits of Telephone Care Over Primary Care for Smoking Cessation | Zendy

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Benefits of Telephone Care Over Primary Care for Smoking Cessation

Author(s) -

Lawrence C. An,

ShuHong Zhu,

David Nelson,

Nancy J. Arikian,

Sean Nugent,

Melissa R. Partin,

Anne M. Joseph

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.5.536

Subject(s) - medicine , telephone counseling , abstinence , smoking cessation , randomized controlled trial , odds ratio , confidence interval , intervention (counseling) , veterans affairs , physical therapy , health care , family medicine , psychiatry , pathology , economics , economic growth

Brief clinician intervention and telephone counseling are both effective aids for smoking cessation. However, the potential benefit of telephone care above and beyond routine clinician intervention has not been examined previously. The objective of this study is to determine if telephone care increases smoking cessation compared with brief clinician intervention as part of routine health care.

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