Dissociation between hospital performance of the smoking cessation counseling quality metric and cessation outcomes after myocardial infarction

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 2111-2117

  Reeves, Gordon R ^a   Wang, Tracy Y ^a   Reid, Kimberly J ^b   Alexander, Karen P ^a   Decker, Carole ^b   Ahmad, Homaa ^b   Spertus, John A ^b   Peterson, Eric D ^a,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c DUKE CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING CESSATION; SMOKING CESSATION COUNSELING;

DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 54949113661     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.168.19.2111     Document Type: Article

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