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Wonderful confirmation of what I can affirm is a very effective approach to offering assistance to patients in their journey to become smoke-free. Our Team implemented this model in early 2011, and it has been an ongoing success story.
By defining specific roles for office staff, allied health providers, and physicians within the framework of the Ottawa Model, this Team-based approach to smoking cessation divi...
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Overall, the project is well designed and demonstrates good health care delivery outcomes for the OMSC, which HSF believes should be used to increase tobacco cessation delivery in primary care settings. HSF is proud to have funded this important research and looks forward to the second phase of evaluation which assesses patient outcomes related to OMSC.
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Excellent study! From my perspective as a family heath team pharmacist who specializes in smoking cessation, the OMSC has greatly assisted our clinic of 37 doctors and 30,000 rostered patients in improving patient outcomes for smoking cessation. The engagement of our whole clinic was key to helping our patients quit smoking. The OMSC was with us every step of the way providing expertise and support.
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Tobacco use kills about 6 million people every year across our globe, and despite decades of concerted effort in tobacco control the epidemic continues apace. The only way we will see significant declines in tobacco caused disease and premature death is to provide effective treatment to smokers. Physicians and other clinicians are in the best position to provide this treatment. This paper by Papadakis et al shows the powe...
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