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ArticleAnnals of the American Thoracic Society2021

Cost-Effectiveness of Four Financial Incentive Programs for Smoking Cessation.

Louise B Russell, Kevin G Volpp, Pui L Kwong, Benjamin S Cosgriff, Michael O Harhay, Jingsan Zhu, Scott D Halpern

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Article in Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Financial Incentives for Substance Abstinence: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Louise B RussellDepartment of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.ORCID 0000-0003-3599-0991
Kevin G VolppDepartment of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.ORCID 0000-0003-3389-6707
Pui L KwongDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Benjamin S CosgriffIndependent Consultant, Westfield, New Jersey.
Michael O HarhayDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.ORCID 0000-0002-0553-674X
Jingsan ZhuDepartment of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.
Scott D HalpernDepartment of Medical Ethics and Health Policy.ORCID 0000-0002-3603-4769

Funding

The Penn Roybal Center on Behavioral Economics and Health: Solving for Scale and Impact with Design Thinking, Digital Platforms, and Dynamic AdaptationP30AG034546 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Alison Meredith Buttenheim · 2009 to 2026
$10.6M
Improving the fairness of RCTs among patients with acute and chronic respiratory failureK24HL143289 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Scott D Halpern · 2018 to 2026
$1.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS K24 HL143289NIA NIH HHS P30 AG034546
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

MotivationSmoking CessationCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansQuality-Adjusted Life YearsSmokingbehavioral interventioncost-effectiveness analysisemployer perspectivehealthcare sector perspectivesmoking cessation

Identifiers

PMID33979562
PMCPMC8641815

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