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Labeling smokers' charts with a "smoker” sticker : Results of a randomized controlled trial among private practitioners

Etter, Jean-François ; Rielle, Jean-Charles ; Perneger, Thomas

In: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2000, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 421-424

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    Titre
    • Labeling smokers' charts with a "smoker” sticker
      Results of a randomized controlled trial among private practitioners
    Auteur
    • Etter, Jean-François. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, CMU, Case Postale, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland
    • Rielle, Jean-Charles. CIPRET (Center for Information on Smoking Prevention), Geneva, Switzerland
    • Perneger, Thomas. Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Geneva, CMU, Case Postale, CH-1211, Geneva 4, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:313795
    Summary
    We randomly assigned private practitioners (n=393) to receiving, by mail, a box of "Smoker” stickers and a recommendation to label smokers' charts with these stickers, or to no intervention. Twenty percent of the physicians reported using the stickers and applying them on 43% of their smoking patients' charts. The intervention had no impact on physician reports of the proportion of smokers advised to quit smoking, but physicians who reported using the stickers stated that they advised more smokers to quit after the intervention (89%) than before (80%, P=.02). Thus, self-reports by physicians indicated that use of the stickers was associated with an increased proportion of smokers advised to quit. However, overall, the intervention did not modify physicians' behavior