Abstract
Introduction: The aim of the study was to analyze the characteristics of patients and prescribers of treatment with NRT, after the implementation of a treatment program in our hospital for admitted smokers.
Methods: A retrospective descriptive analysis of smokers treated during the period of hospitalization with NRT between 2013-2017 in our hospital, evaluating the diagnosis on admission, comorbidities, services involved, and effectiveness of the treatment at month, 6 months and 1 year after hospital discharge.
Results: We obtained valid data in 88 patients, 53 (60.2%) males with mean age of 60.4 ± 12.06 years. The cumulative index of average tobacco was 52.25 ± 27.8 and the mean stay was 10.97 ± 9.28 days. The most frequent diagnosis on admission were COPD in 25% of cases, lung cancer in 10.2%, hemoptysis in 6.8%, pneumonia in 6.8%, stroke, digestive pathology and non-pulmonary cancer in 4.5% each one and finally ischemic heart disease in 3.4%.
The comorbidities most frequently found were COPD (43.2%), arterial hypertension (35.2%), dyslipidemia (30.7%), depression (29.5%), diabetes (27.3%), alcoholism (25 %), anxiety (21.6%), drugs addiction (14.8%), lung cancer (13.6%), ischemic heart disease (12.5%) and stroke (10.2%).
The majority of the patients were admitted in the Pneumology (54.5%) and Internal Medicine departments (23.9%).
One month after discharge, 50% of them had quit smoking, at 6 months 40.9% and after one year 43.2%.
Only 29.5% of treated patients were followed in a tobacco cessation unit after discharge.
Conclusions: The follow-up after discharge in specialized units of tobacco cessation is very low, yet the efficacy of the treatment per year was high.
Footnotes
Cite this article as: European Respiratory Journal 2019; 54: Suppl. 63, PA2862.
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