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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2022 May 27;74(9):1421–1429. doi: 10.1002/acr.24589

Table 2.

Visit level steps observed pre- and post-protocol among visits with tobacco users

Pre-Protocol
n= 47067
n (%)
Post-Protocol
n=7023
n (%)
p
Tobacco Status Assessed 45326 (96.3%) 6797 (96.8%) 0.045
Tobacco User Visits 4078 (8.7%) 523 (7.4%) <0.001
Readiness to Quit Assessed 135 (3.3%) 421 (80.5%) <0.001
Ready to Quit 59 (43.7%) 122 (29.0%) 0.002
Quit line E-Referral Offered 1/175 (0.6%)* 93 (76.2%) <0.001
E-referral Accepted 66 (71.0%)
E-referral Declined 27 (29.0%)
*

Our published abstracted rate for any quit line offers among anyone who smoked before e-referral protocol implementation.