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November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Most larger U.S. medical practice groups have some strategy in place to treat patients' tobacco dependence. But few have instituted a broad, multistrategy effort as recommended by Public Health Service guidelines, according to this survey-based study.
July 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin served as the lead organization in a project to update the U.S. Public Health Service clinical practice guideline, Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence.
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The National Medical Association engaged African-American clinicians in training others to follow a clinical practice guideline on smoking cessation and in disseminating and implementing the guideline, Smoking Cessation, Clinical Practice Guideline, No. 18.
October 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
In 2000, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released revised guidelines for clinical and community tobacco cessation interventions that have the potential to reduce smoking rates nationally.
January 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
This project included three activities in conjunction with the April 1996 release of the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline.
July 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The AMA produced and disseminated a pocket guide, Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Primary Care Clinicians, prepared by the federal Agency for Health Care Policy and Research as a summary of its Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation.
May 8, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Dartmouth Medical School created, assessed and distributed Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond, a multimedia educational tool to help health care practitioners treat tobacco dependence in pregnant women.
December 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The University of Wisconsin helped the Allina Medical Clinic to conduct a group randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of a smoking cessation strategy based on the ACHPR guideline.
May 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
The Bayer Institute for Health Care Communication explored with health care experts the development of a single intervention tool for treating the "big four" health risk behaviors: sedentary lifestyle, risky drinking, unhealthy diet and smoking.
May 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia investigated whether instituting smoking status as a vital sign within primary care practices would increase the likelihood that clinicians will advise patients to quit smoking.