Dissociation Between Hospital Performance of the Smoking Cessation Counseling Quality Metric and Cessation Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction | Zendy

Gordon R. Reeves | Zendy; Tracy Y. Wang | Zendy; Kimberly J. Reid | Zendy; Karen P. Alexander | Zendy; Carole Decker | Zendy; Homaa Ahmad | Zendy; John A. Spertus | Zendy; Eric D. Peterson | Zendy

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Dissociation Between Hospital Performance of the Smoking Cessation Counseling Quality Metric and Cessation Outcomes After Myocardial Infarction

Author(s) -

Gordon R. Reeves,

Tracy Y. Wang,

Kimberly J. Reid,

Karen P. Alexander,

Carole Decker,

Homaa Ahmad,

John A. Spertus,

Eric D. Peterson

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.168.19.2111

Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , smoking cessation , myocardial infarction , emergency medicine , confidence interval , pathology

Recognizing the importance of smoking cessation after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations currently uses documentation of smoking cessation counseling (SCC) as a metric of hospitals' quality of AMI care. Yet, the association between hospitals' performance of this quality measure and subsequent tobacco cessation rates has not been established.

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