Educating Providers on Proactive Smoking Cessation Treatments in Primary Care

• Published in: Journal for nurse practitioners Vol. 21; no. 1; p. 105239
• Main Authors: Gilbert, Paige, Dowd, Bree-Ann, Dabney, Beverly W., Linton, Mary
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia Elsevier Inc 01.01.2025; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Acceptance; Avoidable; Behavior; Drug therapy; Education; Electronic health records; Health care; Human subjects; Intervention; Nicotine; Patients; Primary care; primary health care; provider education; Quality improvement; Quality management; Quasi-experimental methods; Smoking cessation; Tobacco; United States > US; Michigan; primary health care; smoking cessation; quality improvement; provider education

Smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. Despite available treatments, quitting rates are low without proper support. In a primary care setting, proactive smoking cessation interventions were not routinely provided. A quality improvement project using quasi-experimental desi...