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Table 2 Changes in Alcohol and Tobacco Screening and Intervention Rates by Study Phases (%)

From: Impact of vital signs screening & clinician prompting on alcohol and tobacco screening and intervention rates: a pre-post intervention comparison

 

Phase I

Phase II

Phase III

p

 

(n = 211)

(n = 210)

(n = 201)

 

Alcohol Screening and Intervention Rates

    

   Screening by Nurses

9.5 a

38.1 b

32.3 c

.018

   Screening by Clinicians

9.5 a

13.4 b

21.9 c

<.001

   Any Screening (Nurses or Clinicians)

14.7 a

40.5 b

37.8 c

.041

   Clinician Alcohol Interventions

3.8 a

6.7 b

12.4 c

<.001

Tobacco Screening Rates

    

   Screening by Nurses

20.4 a

44.8 b

41.3 c

.081

   Screening by Clinicians

18.5

18.1

26.0

.121

   Any Screening (Nurses or Clinicians)

28.0 a

49.5 b

49.0 b

.371

Tobacco Intervention Rates

(n = 87)

(n = 76)

(n = 76)

 

   Clinician advice to quit

32.2 a

30.3 b

47.4 c

.042

   Specific Tobacco Quit Steps

    

Asked what would motivate patient to quit

14.3

17.6

25.0

.021

Gave patient a pamphlet

9.1

9.5

15.4

.017

Discussed lessons learned from past attempts

7.9

6.8

9.2

.421

Discussed setting a date to quit

3.9

8.1

10.8

.029

Discussed nicotine products or other meds

9.2 a

16.2 b

24.2 c

<.001

Prescribed bupropion or a nicotine product

3.9 a

5.4 b

12.1 c

<.001

Gave info about Tobacco Quit Line

5.3

1.4

6.1

.711

Referred to a smoking cessation program

2.6

2.7

3.0

.052

  1. Values with different superscripts differ from each other at p < .05 on pairwise comparison; p-values listed in the table arefrom test of linear trends across study phases