The Equity Impact of Proactive Outreach to Smokers: Analysis of a Randomized Trial

American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 506-516

  Danan, Elisheva R ^a,b   Fu, Steven S ^a,b   Clothier, Barbara A ^a   Noorbaloochi, Siamak ^a,b   Hammett, Patrick J ^a,c   Widome, Rachel ^c   Burgess, Diana J ^a,b  

^a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; POPULATION RESEARCH; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL STATUS; COUNSELING; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEPHONE; THERAPY; UNITED STATES; VETERAN;

COUNSELING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEPHONE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 85051705219     PISSN: 07493797     EISSN: 18732607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.05.023     Document Type: Article

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