A community-based pharmacist-led smoking cessation program, before elective total joint replacement surgery, markedly enhances smoking cessation rates.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We compared smoking cessation outcomes between those who used a pharmacist-led community-based smoking cessation intervention and those who did not, prior to total joint replacement (TJR) surgery. Also, we examined intervention characteristics (e.g. number/duration of sessions attended, recommended therapy) and smoking cessation outcomes.

Methods

This prospective evaluation was nested within a comparative study from a centralized clinic that prepares over 3000 patients annually for TJR and focused on participants referred to the community-based smoking cessation program preoperatively. Pharmacists offered an individualized evidence-based intervention and collected visit, duration and intervention data. Smoking cessation, the primary outcome, was ascertained inde

SUBMITTER: Beaupre LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7528266 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature