Publications by authors named "B Soffelmayr"
Background: Although office-based and telephone support services enhance the rate of smoking cessation in managed care systems, it is not clear whether such services are effective for very low-income smokers. We evaluated the comparative effectiveness of usual care (physician-delivered advice and follow-up) and usual care enhanced by 6 computer-assisted telephonic-counseling sessions by office nurses and telephone counselors for smoking cessation in very low-income smokers in Medicaid managed care.
Methods: A randomized clinical trial comparing the 2 approaches was conducted in 3 Michigan community health centers.