Cost-Effectiveness of a Hospital-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention

Richard T. Meenan; Victor J. Stevens; Mark C. Hornbrook; Pierre-Andre La Chance; Russell E. Glasgow; Jack F. Hollis; Edward Lichtenstein; Thomas Vogt

doi:10.1097/00005650-199805000-00007

Abstract

Providing brief smoking cessation advice to hospitalized smokers is relatively inexpensive, cost-effective, and should become a part of the standard of inpatient care.

Keywords

MedicineSmoking cessationIntervention (counseling)Cost effectivenessCost–benefit analysisMarginal costEmergency medicinePhysical therapyNursing

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Year: 1998
Type: article
Volume: 36
Issue: 5
Pages: 670-678
Citations: 98
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                                    Richard T. Meenan, 
                                
                                    Victor J. Stevens, 
                                
                                    Mark C. Hornbrook
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (1998). 
                            Cost-Effectiveness of a Hospital-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention. 
                            Medical Care
                            , 36
                            (5)
                            , 670-678.
                            https://doi.org/10.1097/00005650-199805000-00007
                        

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DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199805000-00007