The systematic integration of evidence-based tobacco treatment has yet to be broadly
viewed as a standard-of-care. The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control recommends …

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a considerable cause of patient morbidity and mortality
and are associated with increased hospital lengths of stay as well as increased health care …

Objective: To assess the prevalence of and identify characteristics associated with unhealthy
use before surgery. Background: Although the escalation in US drug overdose deaths is …

Background Machine learning algorithms are promising tools for smoking status
classification in big patient data sets. Smoking is a risk factor for postoperative complications …

Objective: To assess associations between co-occurring preoperative smoking and risky
alcohol use on the likelihood of adverse surgical outcomes. Background: Risky alcohol use …

Global demand for major surgery is rising as a consequence of a growing ageing
population, and clinically applicable approaches to perioperative risk reduction have never …

Importance The health of the US population is decreasing, and novel strategies are needed
to reverse the trajectory. The surgical episode may be an opportune time to screen for poor …

Chronic pain begins with acute pain. Physicians tend to classify pain by duration (acute vs
chronic) and mechanism (nociceptive, neuropathic and nociplastic). Although this taxonomy …

Introduction Assisting smokers to quit before surgery reduces surgical site infection (SSI)
risk. The short-term economic benefits of reducing SSIs by embedding tobacco dependence …

Objective Smoking cessation interventions are underutilized in the surgical setting. We
aimed to systematically identify the barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation in the …