Hospitalists' Role in Improving Prescriptions of Nicotine Replacement Therapy Among Tobacco Users During Hospitalization and at Discharge

J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Mar;34(3):333-335. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4693-2.

Authors

Kristian Feterik¹, Thomas Ylioja², Anna E Schulze², Antoine Douaihy³, Kaleab Z Abebe², Esa M Davis²

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 200 Lothrop Street, 933W-MUH, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. feterikk@upmc.edu.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 200 Lothrop Street, 933W-MUH, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
³ Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3811 O'Hara St., Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: hospital medicine; patient activation; smoking cessation; substance abuse.

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Directive Counseling / methods*
Drug Prescriptions
Female
Hospitalists / psychology*
Hospitalists / trends
Hospitalization / trends
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Patient Discharge* / trends
Smoking Cessation / methods*
Smoking Cessation / psychology*
Tobacco Use Cessation Devices* / trends