Table 2.
Site Characteristics and Organizational Priority Associated With Tobacco Use Treatment Practices
| Ask | Advise | Assess | Assist | Arrange | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentage of respondents selecting “most of the time” or “always.” | |||||
| Length of time screening | |||||
| <1 year | 100% | 93.9% | 63.6% | 54.5% | 39.4% |
| 1–3 years | 97.6% | 88.1% | 76.2% | 59.5% | 35.7% |
| ≥4 years | 100% | 94.4% | 77.8% | 55.6% | 33.3% |
| Site coordinator | |||||
| Physician | 96.7% | 93.3% | 80% | 60% | 46.7% |
| Nurse | 100% | 90.5% | 71.4% | 57.1% | 33.3% |
| Not applicable (not a clinician) | 100% | 94.4% | 61% | 50% | 27.8% |
| Odds ratio (confidence interval) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic affiliation | 0.8 (0.1–9.4) | 2.2 (0.6–8.2) | 3.0 (1.1–8.1)* | 1.5 (0.6–3.7) | 2.0 (0.7–5.6) |
| Spearman correlation coefficienta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patients screened per month | 0.162 | −0.078 | 0.001 | 0.063 | −0.032 |
| Pearson correlation coefficienta | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational priority | 0.235* | 0.366** | 0.265* | 0.427** | 0.253* |
*Significant at the .05 level (two-tailed).
**Significant at the .01 level (two -tailed).
aRaw continuous scores were used for Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist and Arrange.