Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 199-206 , November 2008

In-hospital smoking cessation programs: what do VA patients and staff want and need?

  • Sonia A. Duffy, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • VA HSR&D Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-0170, USA
    • Departments of Otolaryngology and Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2205, USA
    • Department of Veterans Affairs, VISN 11 Healthcare Network, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4002, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. VA HSR&D Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System (11H), PO Box 130170, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-0170, USA. Tel.: +1 734 769 7100x6210; fax: +1 734 761 2939.
    • ,
  • Pamela Reeves, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0482, USA
    • Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, 48109-0368, USA
    • ,
  • Christopher Hermann, MSN

      Affiliations

    • John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI 48201-1916, USA
    • ,
  • Carrie Karvonen, MPH

      Affiliations

    • VA HSR&D Center for Practice Management and Outcomes Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-0170, USA
    • ,
  • Patricia Smith, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada P7B 5E1

Received 17 August 2006 ,Revised 24 November 2006 ,Accepted 28 November 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.apnr.2006.11.002

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 199-206 , November 2008

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