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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 2/2016

01-02-2016 | Editorial

Training Future Physicians to Deliver Tobacco Cessation Treatment

Author: Nancy A. Rigotti, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 2/2016

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For two decades already, clinical practice guidelines have exhorted physicians to address tobacco use with all of their adult patients. Evidence from clinical trials was sufficient by 1996 for the U.S. Public Health Service to make this recommendation in the nation’s first smoking cessation clinical practice guideline.1 Subsequent updates reaffirmed this position. Most recently, the September 2015 update of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s tobacco cessation guideline gave this recommendation an “A” rating.2 …
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Metadata
Title
Training Future Physicians to Deliver Tobacco Cessation Treatment
Author
Nancy A. Rigotti, MD
Publication date
01-02-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-015-3560-7

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