Promotion of smoking cessation by New Zealand general practitioners: A description of current practice

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 113, Issue 1122, 2000, Pages 480-482

  McLeod, Deborah ^a   Somasundaram, Rathi ^a   Howden Chapman, Philippa ^a   Dowell, Anthony C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEW ZEALAND; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SMOKING CESSATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DATA COLLECTION; FAMILY PRACTICE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0034711555     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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