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Tobacco Use
Repeated tobacco-use screening and intervention is cost effective
August 28th, 2006
Repeated tobacco-use screening and intervention is cost effective. According to a study from the United States, "This report updates 2001 estimates of disease burden prevented and cost effectiveness of tobacco-use screening and brief intervention relative to that of other clinical preventive services. It also addresses repeated counseling because the literature has focused on single episodes of treatment, while in reality that is neither desirable nor likely." "Literature searches led to four models for calculating the clinically preventable burden of deaths and morbidity from smoking as well as the cost effectiveness of providing the service...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2006-08-28)
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