Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement (SPAQI) Consensus Statement on Perioperative Smoking Cessation.

Smokers are at increased risk for surgical complications. Despite the known benefits of smoking cessation, many perioperative health care providers do not routinely provide smoking cessation interventions. The variation in delivery of perioperative smoking cessation interventions may be due to limited high-level evidence for whether smoking cessation interventions used in the general population are effective and feasible in the surgical population, as well as the challenges and barriers to implementation of interventions.

Evaluation of a Pilot Perioperative Smoking Cessation Program: A Pre-Post Study.

Background: Surgical clinic and perioperative settings are critical touchpoints for treating smoking, yet health care systems have not typically prioritized smoking cessation among surgical patients. We evaluated the implementation of a pilot smoking cessation intervention integrated into standard perioperative care.

Materials And Methods: English-speaking adult smokers undergoing elective surgery in Kaiser Permanente San Francisco before (2015) and after (2016-2017) the implementation of a smoking cessation intervention were included.

Challenges of Capacity and Development for Health System Sustainability.

To achieve sustainability, remote and rural communities require health service models that are designed in and for these settings and are responsive to local population health needs. This paper draws on a panel discussion at the Rural and Indigenous Health Symposium held in Toronto, ON, on September 21, 2017. Active community participation is an important contributor to success in rural health system transformation, as well as health workforce recruitment and retention.

Mothers with Physical Disabilities Caring for Young Children.

Seventy-one U.S. mothers with a physical disability who had a child aged 0 to 3 years responded to a survey about the system of care used for their child.

How to integrate findings from simulation exercises to improve obstetrics care in the institution.

The opening of a new facility often brings teams from different backgrounds who have previously never worked together. Organizational goals of safety and high reliability from the first day of operations would be impossible to attain without testing. Simulation is now being used to test new services, departments, and entire facilities before opening.

Persuasion: getting your points across.

Leaders have many options and resources open to them when they try to motivate their followers. These include forcing, ordering, manipulating, cajoling, threatening, and persuading. Of all these options, perhaps the most useful and powerful is persuasion.