Low-Burden Strategies to Promote Smoking Cessation Treatment Among Patients With Serious Mental Illness.

ABSTRACT: Patients with serious mental illness have high smoking prevalence and early mortality. Inadequate implementation of evidence-based smoking cessation treatment in community mental health centers (CMHCs) contributes to this disparity. This column describes a study of the effects of quality improvement strategies on treatment and cessation outcomes among patients with serious mental illness at four CMHCs. Two low-burden strategies, decision support and academic detailing with data-driven feedback, were implemented in the CMHCs' clinics from 2014 to 2016. Pre- and postimplementation data from pharmacy and medical records were analyzed. The percentage of patients receiving cessation medication increased from 5% to 18% (p≤.001), and smoking prevalence decreased from 57% to 54% (p≤.001). This qua

SUBMITTER: Chen LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6280191 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature