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Implementation of a quality improvement project on smoking cessation reduces smoking in a high risk trauma patient population

BACKGROUND: Cigarette smoking causes about one of every five deaths in the U.S. each year. In 2013 the prevalence of smoking in our institution’s trauma population was 26.7 %, well above the national adult average of 18.1 % according to the CDC website. As a quality improvement project we implemente...

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Published in:World J Emerg Surg
Main Authors: Nahmias, Jeffry, Doben, Andrew, Poola, Shiva, Korntner, Samuel, Carrens, Karen, Gross, Ronald
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4845496/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27118989
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-016-0072-7
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