This paper outlines how competing demands affect physician delivery of clinical preventive
services and provides a model designed to help practicing physi cians improve the delivery …

There is an increasing momentum to integrate prevention into mainstream health care.
Three decades of research on tobacco dependence can provide insights into the …

The authors state this book and the previous edition were written 'to provide a conceptual
synthesis of the roots and foundations of health education...'(p. xvii). They have expanded …

Cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of death in the United States.
Surveys of patients, however, suggest that many physicians do not routinely counsel …

Study objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of two teaching interventions to increase
residents' performance of smoking cessation counseling. Design: Randomized controlled …

Study objective: To test the hypotheses that physicians in private practice who receive a
continuing education program (entitled “Quit for Life”) about how to counsel smokers to quit …

This is a study of physicians' stop-smoking advice to patients in a university-affiliated family
medicine outpatient center. The study population consisted of 311 cigarette-smoking …

OBJECTIVES. This study was designed to provide an empirical description, based on a
review of visit audiotapes, of primary care practice with chronic-disease patients. METHODS …

Objective: The aim of the study was to determine the costs and effects associated with a
community pharmacy-based smoking-cessation programme in Northern Ireland, using the …

Background While primary care medical clinics have been the most common setting for the
delivery of advice about smoking cessation, the hospital emergency department (ED) is a …