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Vital sign chart forms (electronic and paper) need to reflect temperature site as well as device, time, day, and reading in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
The primary purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effect of implementing the fax-to-quit system plus an expanded vital sign chart stamp that prompted providers to offer the first 4As compared to the vital sign chart stamp alone on the level of cessation support smokers received.
The high rates of baseline screening and advice to quit offered by clinicians in all study sites was likely related to the expanded vital sign chart stamp which was implemented three months prior to the start of this study.
In this study, a fax referral system combined with an expanded vital sign chart prompt was associated with higher rates of provider initiated assistance and referral to the Quitline compared with the chart prompts alone.
Prior to the study, as part of a quality improvement initiative to disseminate tobacco use treatment guidelines, the research team worked with all clinics within the ACRN to implement an expanded "vital sign" chart stamp, that prompted providers to ask patients about tobacco use, advise them to quit, assess readiness to quit, offer assistance and arrange follow-up.
Prior to the study, as part of a quality improvement (QI) initiative to disseminate tobacco use treatment guidelines, all CHCs within the ACRN implemented an expanded vital sign chart stamp that prompted providers to ask patients about tobacco use, advise them to quit, assess readiness to quit and offer assistance (4As) (Additional file 1).
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I could hear him jingling some loose change in his right coat pocket, but he made no effort to pull out his stethoscope to listen to his patient's heart and lungs or to look over the vital signs chart.
SEND is not the first electronic vital signs charting system to be developed.
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