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Q Is a nurse led, smoking cessation intervention, given individually for more than 5 months, effective in patients admitted to hospital for coronary heart disease?
METHODS
Design:
randomised controlled trial.
Allocation:
{concealed}*.
Blinding:
blinded {patients and healthcare providers}*.
Follow up period:
12 months.
Setting:
cardiac ward of a general hospital in Kristiansand, Norway.
Patients:
250 patients <76 years of age who were current daily smokers and had been admitted to hospital for myocardial infarction, unstable angina, or coronary bypass surgery. Exclusion criteria: serious illness associated with a short life span, serious psychiatric problems, alcoholism, or dementia. (10 patients were withdrawn after randomisation because of a refuting diagnosis; the remaining 240 patients had …
Footnotes
↵* Information provided by author.
For correspondence: Dr P Quist-Paulsen, Department of Haematology, St Olavs Hospital, 7006 Trondheim, Norway. petterqponline.no
Sources of funding: Vest-Agder Council for Public Health and the charity Sykehuset i vaare hender.