An Automated Tobacco Cessation Intervention for Emergency Department Discharged Patients

The objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an automated discharge instruction system in increasing the frequency of discharging current tobacco users with instructions for tobacco cessation.Methods: The study was done at an urban academic tertiary care center. A before and after study was used to test the hypothesis that use of an automated discharged instruction system would increase the frequency that patients who use tobacco were discharged with tobacco cessation instructions....
Source: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine - Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research