The current tobacco control performance measures are quantified yearly using a mixed-methods approach based on mail and telephone surveys to assess performance at visits that occurred in the past year.
Just narrowing Japan Tobacco's performance gap with rivals would restore some $13 billion of wealth to the government's treasury.
All hospitals incorporated tobacco control performance into their department and staff evaluations, suggesting tobacco control activities were considered an important mission by all participating hospitals.
This study in this report compares two methods of patient-report of provider tobacco control performance – immediate "exit cards" and delayed telephone surveys.
"Tobacco is tobacco is tobacco.
Analyses from mixed surgically and medically treated cohorts of patients identified tobacco consumption, clinical performance status, siderosis of non-tumorous tissue, tumor stage according to BCLC and the initial treatment to be relevant for survival [ 5, 7].
Chart abstraction is expensive and may underestimate provider performance for tobacco control because tobacco cessation counseling is often not documented in patients' charts [ 20].
Wall Street analysts have long maintained that the association with tobacco has hurt the performance of Philip Morris's stock.
The overall scenario suggests a pleiotropic role of Chr15q25 nicotinic gene cluster with complex influences in ADHD, tobacco smoking and cognitive performance, characteristics that can be partially interdependent and may share underlying genetic factors.
