title: [Increasing smoking cessation rates in hospitalized patients with coronary artery disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Smoking cessation improves disease prognoses and decreases the risk of sudden death in patients with coronary artery disease.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This study was designed to increase the six-month smoking cessation rate to more than 45% for hospitalized patients with coronary artery disease.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data analysis found a current smoking cessation rate of zero percent. Strategies to raise this rate significantly included implementing a referral system, regulating case managers and follow-up procedures, providing smoking cessation guidelines, distributing patient education handouts, setting up an information system to facilitate smoking cessation case management, and implementing smoking cessation education programs for health professionals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The smoking cessation referral rate increased to 100% and the six-months smoking cessation rate rose to 50%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This project leveraged interdisciplinary cooperation to increase the rate of smoking cessation in hospitalized patients. It also introduced the unique function of case manager who is charged with systemically following up with patients to improve the effectiveness of smoking cessation programs.
authors: Department of Nursing, Cathay General Hospital, Republic of China.
authors: Yi-Lin
authors: YL
authors: Su
authors: Yen-Ping
authors: YP
authors: Tsai
authors: Chen-Jung
authors: CJ
authors: Liu
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*