Is hospitalization a missed opportunity to intervene on tobacco cessation?

CONCLUSIONS: Despite hospitalization being associated with NRT prescribing, most patients who use tobacco and are hospitalized are not prescribed NRT. Hospitalization is an underutilized opportunity for both hospitalists and primary care physicians to intervene on smoking cessation through education and prescription of tobacco cessation aids.PMID:38043793 | DOI:10.1016/j.amjms.2023.11.024

Source: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - December 3, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ellen M Nielsen Jingwen Zhang Justin Marsden Chloe Bays William P Moran Patrick D Mauldin Leslie A Lenert Benjamin A Toll Andrew D Schreiner Marc Heincelman Source Type: research