Arch Intern Med -- The Presence of Tobacco Cessation Programs Is Not Sufficient for Low-Income Hospitalized Smokers--Reply, May 11, 2009, Parashar et al. 169 (9): 902
169 No. COMMENTS AND OPINIONS The Presence of Tobacco Cessation Programs Is Not Sufficient for Low-Income Hospitalized Smokers& 8212;Reply Susmita Parashar, MD, MPH, MS ; Nazeera Dawood, MD, MPH ; Kimberly J. In reply We be appreciative the feedback from Shah et al on our article.
1 They lift enterprise on the handle of "economic burden" instead of annual resources as a likely predictor of smoking cessation after a myocardial infarction (MI) in our study. To assess economic burden, at the age of MI hospitalization, we asked patients if they avoided health bother services in the prior year due to costs.
Although our bivariate dialogue showed that annual method less than $10 000 was a heavy predictor of not quitting smoking, we chose to apply "economic burden" for the consequent reasons: (1) We focused specifically on patients' self-reported financial grievance rather than inferring it from their reported means in that patients with higher way may avoid health dismay services as of, for example, personal debts,.
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