[Recommendations for invasive home mechanical ventilation].

Due to chronic respiratory failure, a proportion of patients require long-term home ventilation therapy. The treating doctors, nurses and therapists, as well as employees of the health insurance provider, all require specialized knowledge in order to establish and monitor home ventilation. The following document represents a consensus formed by the participating specialist societies, the health insurers and their medical advisory services.

Perceived difficulty quitting predicts enrollment in a smoking-cessation program for patients with head and neck cancer.

Purpose/objectives: To determine the predictors of participation in a smoking-cessation program among patients with head and neck cancer.

Design: This cross-sectional study is a substudy of a larger, randomized trial of patients with head and neck cancer that determined the predictors of smokers' participation in a cessation intervention.

Setting: Otolaryngology clinics at three Veterans Affairs medical centers (Ann Arbor, MI, Gainesville, FL, and Dallas, TX), and the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor.