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Unknown population-level harms of cannabis and tobacco co-use: if you don't measure it, you can't manage it.

Chandni HindochaErin A McClure
Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) (2020)
We propose that clinical studies begin to incorporate cannabis-tobacco co-use assessments to justify better their inclusion in clinical trials and national surveillance surveys. Integration of co-use assessments will aid in understanding the true impact on co-use of the changing cannabis and tobacco/nicotine regulatory environments. Co-use is prevalent and problematic, and the ability to make conclusions about its health outcomes is hindered by lack of nuance in data collection. If you do not measure it, you cannot manage it.
Keyphrases
  • clinical trial
  • public health
  • electronic health record
  • quality improvement
  • cross sectional
  • smoking cessation
  • data analysis
  • study protocol