Open AccessAssociation Between Smoking Cessation Treatment and Healthcare Costs in a Single-Payer Public Healthcare System
Author(s) -
Dolly Baliunas,
Sabrina Voci,
Claire de Oliveira,
Peter Selby,
Paul Kurdyak,
Laura Rosella,
Laurie Zawertailo,
Longdi Fu,
Rinku Sutradhar
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntac166
Subject(s) - smoking cessation , health care , medicine , healthcare system , public healthcare , public health , family medicine , environmental health , nursing , political science , law , pathology
There has been little investigation of whether the clinical effectiveness of smoking cessation treatments translates into differences in healthcare costs, using real-world cost data, to determine whether anticipated benefits of smoking cessation treatment are being realized.