UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
UW-CTRI has partnered to use electronic health records (EHRs) to refer patients who smoke or chew tobacco to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line, and the improvement over traditional referral systems has been significant. In fact, the new eReferral system helped clinicians refer 14% of adult tobacco users, compared to the traditional Fax to Quit system …
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) adopted two of the Joint Commission’s tobacco measures, requiring psychiatric hospitals to report on them or risk a 2% cut in annual CMS payments. The measures include: Inpatient psychiatric hospitals are required to adopt and report on these tobacco performance measures beginning in federal fiscal year 2017. …
According to an article published online by the American Journal of Public Health, four out of five low-income patients at community health centers (CHCs) want to quit smoking. These CHCs primarily serve low-income individuals. Thirty-one percent of patients at CHCs were current smokers, compared with 21% of US adults in general. Among currently smoking patients …
University of Wisconsin (UW) Provost Paul Deluca has named Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA as recipient of a UW Hilldale Professorship. The award, among the highest of UW honors, is given to faculty members who have records of outstanding research or creative work and show promise of continued productivity. The appointment runs for five years …
Tobacco Free
Marsha Poburka-Endres had no idea when she signed up for the Wisconsin Smokers’ Health Study 2 (WSHS 2) that her health was in imminent danger. Sure, she had smoked for 39 years, but otherwise ate well and exercised regularly. She had no symptoms of disease. But her WSHS 2 health tests in July 2013 revealed …
Karen Schutte has tried to quit smoking more times than she cares to remember. She even tried once during the original Wisconsin Smokers’ Health Study (WSHS). She came back for WSHS 2, at first, solely to help the researchers gather more information. But, once she came back for the second study, she found she was able …