Decision Aid for Cigarette Smokers Scheduled for Elective Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Decision aids can increase patient involvement in decision-making about health care. The study goal was to develop and test a decision aid for use by clinicians in discussion options for changing smoking behavior before and after elective surgery.

Methods

In formative work, a decision aid was designed to facilitate patient-clinician discussion regarding three options: continue smoking, attempt a period of temporary abstinence, and attempt to quit smoking for good. A randomized, two-group pilot study was then conducted in smokers evaluated in preparation for elective surgery in a preoperative clinic to test the hypothesis that the decision aid would improve measures of decisional quality compared with usual care.

Results

The final decision aid consisted of t

SUBMITTER: Warner DO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4626302 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature