TY  - JOUR
T1  - SMoking cessation advice rates in us hospitals
AU  - Levy DE, Kang R, Vogeli CS, Rigotti NA
Y1  - 2011/10/10
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.451
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1682
EP  - 1684
VL  - 171
IS  - 18
N2  - 
In 2002, The Joint Commission (TJC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted a set of publicly reported quality measures for US hospitals that included assessment of smoking cessation advice or counseling (SCA) delivered in hospitals to smokers discharged with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), congestive heart failure (CHF), or community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).1 The National Quality Forum is now considering a revised set of hospital-based smoking cessation measures developed by TJC for use in all hospitalized patients. The new comprehensive measures will track offers of smoking cessation medications, and they will track smoking cessation outcomes.2 Determining the predictors of the mature SCA measure will provide insight into issues that will arise when the new SCA measures are adopted. We present the first study, to our knowledge, of patient and hospital factors associated with SCA rates using a comprehensive sample of hospitals reporting SCA data for patients hospitalized with diagnoses of AMI, CHF, and CAP.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.451
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.451
ER  -