Smoke-free policy in acute mental health wards: avoiding the pitfalls

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 131-136

  Ratschen, Elena ^a   Britton, John ^a   Doody, Gillian A ^a   McNeill, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Smoke free hospitals; Smoke free policy; Tobacco legislation

Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BUILDING; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SMOKE FREE POLICY; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 61349091843     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2008.10.006     Document Type: Article

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