Biomedical subjects

Warren R Stanton

Publications and source records attributed to Warren R Stanton.

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PubMed2002

Dissemination of an efficacious antenatal smoking cessation program in public hospitals in Australia: a randomized controlled trial.

This study investigated the impact of a behaviorally based intervention designed to increase the number of hospitals that routinely provide effective smoking cessation programs for pregnant women. In Queensland, Australia, 70 publicly funded hospitals were matched on numbers of births and maternal socioeconomic status and randomly allocated to an awareness-only intervention group or a behaviorally based intervention group. Success was defined as the routine offer of an evidence-based smoking cessation program to at least 80% of the pregnant clients who smoke. At 1 month, 65% of the behaviorally based intervention hospitals agreed to provide materials about smoking cessation programs for their antenatal patients, compared with 3% of the awareness-only hospitals. After 1 year, 43% of the intervention hospitals still provided the material, compared with 9% of the awareness-only hospitals. These findings show that a brief intervention to hospitals can encourage antenatal staff to provide smoking cessation materials to pregnant women.

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Clinical diagnosis and management of suspicious pigmented skin lesions--a survey of GPs.

BACKGROUND: The ability of general practitioners to make important clinical decisions about the diagnosis and management of skin lesions is poorly understood. METHODS: A questionnaire on the diagnosis and management of eight photographed skin lesions was sent to 150 GPs in southeast Queensland. RESULTS: The questionnaire was completed by 114 GPs (response rate 77%). General practitioners' provisional diagnoses and management of photographed skin lesions were mostly or always correct, and there was general high consistency between diagnosis and intended management. Pigmented seborrhoeic keratoses were the most difficult lesions for GPs to diagnose correctly. Whether a lesion was different to usual moles appears to have the strongest association with clinical diagnosis. DISCUSSION: The high ability of GPs as measured in this artificial study is encouraging. The strong association between identifying moles that appear different to usual and correct clinical diagnoses suggest that unless GPs can increase the number of skin lesions they see as part of their typical workload, their clinical ability may not increase further.

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