Using “warm handoffs” to link hospitalized smokers with tobacco treatment after discharge: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

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2012-08-01
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Faseru, Babalola
Mussulman, Laura M.
Ellerbeck, Edward F.
Shireman, Theresa I.
Hunt, Jamie J.
Carlini, Beatriz H.
Preacher, Kristopher J.
Ayars, Candace L.
Cook, David J.
Richter, Kimber P.
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BioMed Central
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Article
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Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/13/1/127.
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Abstract
Post-discharge support is a key component of effective treatment for hospitalized smokers, but few hospitals provide it. Many hospitals and care settings fax-refer smokers to quitlines for follow-up; however, less than half of fax-referred smokers are successfully contacted and enrolled in quitline services. “Warm handoff” is a novel approach to care transitions in which health care providers directly link patients with substance abuse problems with specialists, using face-to-face or phone transfer. Warm handoff achieves very high rates of treatment enrollment for these vulnerable groups.
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http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16382
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https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-127
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1745-6215
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Richter, Kimber P. et al. (2012). "Using “warm handoffs” to link hospitalized smokers with tobacco treatment after discharge: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial." Trials, 13:127. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-127

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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.trialsjournal.com/content/13/1/127.
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