NIH R01 · 2025
ASSIST: Assessment of Medicaid policy on Smoking Cessation Assistance and Surgical Outcomes
PROJECT SUMMARY Smoking is associated with a variety of adverse health effects, including increased postoperative wound healing time, wound infections, and cardiovascular complications among surgery patients. The associations between pre-operative smoking cessation and improved surgical outcomes have led surgeons and hospitals to implement policies that require patients to quit smoking prior to elective surgeries. Given the high rate of smoking among low-income populations and the even higher rate among Medicaid-insured surgery patients, these policies will disproportionately impact patients of lower socioeconomic status (SES). In 2017, Oregon implemented the first statewide policy in the…
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