title: Provider Link: facilitating healthcare providers' support of web-based smoking cessation efforts via secure e-mail.
abstract: Provider Link is a system designed to enhance the efficacy of a web-based intervention for smoking cessation by helping health care providers support their patients via e-mail. The system is designed to maintain confidentiality while allowing providers rapid access to patient data collected over the web. A trial of Provider Link is currently underway.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, USA.
authors.forename: Kashyap
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Trivedi
authors.forename: Aditya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bansod
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Frysinger
authors.forename: Dawna
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Perkins
authors.forename: Jeannette
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cabanting
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lenert
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D034742:Electronic Mail; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*