Is Making Smoking Status a Vital Sign Sufficient to Increase Cessation Support Actions in Clinical Practice?
Open Access
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 2 (1), 22-25
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.38
Abstract
BACKGROUND There is widespread belief that adding smoking status to the list of vital signs in medical practice will lead to an increased likelihood that physicians will offer more cessation support for smokers during office visits. This article evaluates the impact of introducing routine use of smoking status as a vital sign on clinician cessation support in a primary care setting.Keywords
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