Sustainability of an Opt-Out Electronic-Health Record-Based Tobacco Treatment Consult Service at a Large Safety-Net Hospital: A 6-Year Analysis.
Adriana FloresRenda Soylemez WienerStephanie HonCornelia WakemanJinesa HowardNikita ViraniBruce MattusAlexis Gallardo ForemanJohar SinghLinda RosenKatia BulekovaHasmeena KathuriaPublished in: Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (2024)
Our study shows that opt-out approaches that utilize the EHR are a sustainable approach to providing evidence-based tobacco treatment to all hospitalized individuals who smoke, regardless of readiness to stop smoking and clinical condition.