Why the study?
Do inpatient smoking cessation programs and cardiac rehabilitation referrals improve smoking cessation rates in patients after myocardial infarction?
Population
639 patients who smoked at the time of myocardial infarction hospitalization and completed a 6-month…
Comparison
Presence of an inpatient smoking cessation… vs Absence of an inpatient smoking cessation…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
6 months
Authors
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May support inpatient programs and rehab referrals post-MI; leaves open causal effects pending randomized trials.
Do inpatient smoking cessation programs and cardiac rehabilitation referrals improve smoking cessation rates in patients after myocardial infarction?
Hospital-based smoking cessation programs and referral to cardiac rehabilitation are strongly associated with increased smoking cessation rates post-MI, whereas individual chart-based counseling is not.
Nazeera Dawood (2008) studied this question.
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