Knowledge gaps about smoking cessation in hospitalized patients and their doctors.

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Knowledge gaps about smoking cessation in hospitalized patients and their doctors.

Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2011 Apr;18(2):334-41

Authors: Raupach T, Merker J, Hasenfuss G, Andreas S, Pipe A

Hospitalization is an opportune time for smoking cessation support; cessation interventions delivered by hospital physicians are effective. While general practitioners' and outpatients' knowledge and attitudes towards smoking cessation have been studied in great detail, in-patient cessation programmes have received less attention.

PMID: 21450679 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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