Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2000
Labeling smokers' charts with a "smoker" sticker: results of a randomized controlled trial among private practitioners.
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2000. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
- Strategies to improve smoking cessation rates in primary care.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Manually-generated reminders delivered on paper: effects on professional practice and patient outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Training health professionals in smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Improving patient portal enrolment in an academic resident continuity clinic: quality improvement made simple.BMJ open quality · 2019Article
- Screening and prevention in Swiss primary care: a systematic review.International journal of general medicine · 2011Article
- Impact of vital signs screening & clinician prompting on alcohol and tobacco screening and intervention rates: a pre-post intervention comparison.BMC family practice · 2010Article
- Overcoming barriers to preventive care.Journal of general internal medicine · 2000Article
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Abstract
We randomly assigned private practitioners (n = 393) to receiving, by mail, a box of "Smoker" stickers and a recommendation to label smokers' charts with these stickers, or to no intervention. Twenty percent of the physicians reported using the stickers and applying them on 43% of their smoking patients' charts. The intervention had no impact on physician reports of the proportion of smokers advised to quit smoking, but physicians who reported using the stickers stated that they advised more smokers to quit after the intervention (89%) than before (80%, P =.02). Thus, self-reports by physicians indicated that use of the stickers was associated with an increased proportion of smokers advised to quit. However, overall, the intervention did not modify physicians' behavior.
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