TY - JOUR AU - Buchbinder, Mara AU - Wilbur, Rachel AU - Zuskov, Diana AU - McLean, Samuel AU - Sleath, Betsy PY - 2014 DA - 2014/12/20 TI - Teachable moments and missed opportunities for smoking cessation counseling in a hospital emergency department: a mixed-methods study of patient-provider communication JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 651 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - While primary care medical clinics have been the most common setting for the delivery of advice about smoking cessation, the hospital emergency department (ED) is a valuable context for counseling medically underserved tobacco users. We conducted a secondary analysis based on a larger audio-recorded study of patient-provider communication about pain and analgesics in the ED. Within a sample of ED patients with back pain, the purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine how physicians and nurse practitioners capitalize on “teachable moments” for health education to offer spontaneous smoking cessation counseling in the ED. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0651-9 DO - 10.1186/s12913-014-0651-9 ID - Buchbinder2014 ER -