Ask and act: Delaware physicians demonstrate the effectiveness of the American Academy of Family Physicians' initiative to promote tobacco cessation counseling.
Publication/Presentation Date
4-1-2009
Abstract
The Ask and Act program of the American Academy of Family Physicians promotes family physician tobacco cessation counseling. Smoking and cessation counseling rates were obtained by cross-sectional analysis of electronic medical record data before and after initiation of the Ask and Act program in Delaware. Before the intervention, 24% of the patient population sampled were smokers and 70% of smokers had been counseled to quit smoking. After the intervention, 17% of the patient population sampled were smokers and 98% of smokers had been counseled. Our observations suggest that the Ask and Act program increases counseling, thereby increasing smoking cessation.
Volume
81
Issue
4
First Page
155
Last Page
160
ISSN
0011-7781
Published In/Presented At
Mullins, S., Fagan, H. B., Reed, J. F., 3rd, & Bercaw, D. (2009). Ask and act: Delaware physicians demonstrate the effectiveness of the American Academy of Family Physicians' initiative to promote tobacco cessation counseling. Delaware medical journal, 81(4), 155–160.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
PubMedID
19552219
Department(s)
Department of Medicine
Document Type
Article