Erschienen in:
01.02.2016 | Editorial
Training Future Physicians to Deliver Tobacco Cessation Treatment
verfasst von:
Nancy A. Rigotti, MD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 2/2016
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Excerpt
For two decades already, clinical practice guidelines have exhorted physicians to address tobacco use with all of their adult patients. Evidence from clinical trials was sufficient by 1996 for the U.S. Public Health Service to make this recommendation in the nation’s first smoking cessation clinical practice guideline.
1 Subsequent updates reaffirmed this position. Most recently, the September 2015 update of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s tobacco cessation guideline gave this recommendation an “A” rating.
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