Clinician perceptions of factors influencing referrals to a smoking cessation program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Referral of patients to smoking cessation telephone counseling (i.e., quitline) is an underutilized resource by primary care physicians. Previously, we conducted a randomized trial to determine the effectiveness of benchmarked feedback on clinician referrals to a quitline. Subsequently, we sought to understand the successful practices used by the high-referring clinicians, and the perceptions of the barriers of referring patients to a quitline among both high and non-referring clinicians in the trial.

Methods

We conducted a qualitative sub-study with subjects from the randomized trial, comparing high- and non-referring clinicians. Structured interviews were conducted and two investigators employed a thematic analysis of the transcribed data. Themes and included ca

SUBMITTER: Holtrop JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2323376 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature