ContextDespite wide promulgation, clinical practice guidelines have had limited effect on
changing physician behavior. Little is known about the process and factors involved in …

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, a Public Health Service-sponsored Clinical
Practice Guideline, is a product of the Tobacco Use and Dependence Guideline Panel (" the …

Comprehensive yet accessible, this text provides a practical introduction to the skills,
attitudes, and methods required to assess the worth and value of human services offered in …

To address controversies in the application of cost-effectiveness analysis, we investigate the
principles underlying the technique and discuss the implications for the evaluation of …

PUBLIC and professional concern about the cost of medical care has evoked a variety of
proposed remedies. Professional societies have promulgated guidelines to help physicians …

Consider the following two pieces of information about prostate cancer. First, a brief life
history. Fraser was born in 1921 on a croft in Sutherland, in the far north of Scotland. A local …

Context.—The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) published
theSmoking Cessation: Clinical Practice Guidelinein 1996. Based on the results of meta …

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

ContextCigarette smoking causes more preventable deaths from cardiovascular disease
and cancer than any other modifiable risk factor, but smokers may discount the increased …

Tobacco is now a major preventable cause of death in both developed and developing
countries. Assuming current patterns of tobacco use and intervention efforts, from 2000 to …