How the Most Trusted Venues for Health-Related Information Influence Physician Referrals to Smoking Cessation Services

Table 2

Percentage of physicians who refer their tobacco-using patients to cessation services^a—DocStyles Survey, 2008.

	Refers to cessation services^a
	𝑁	%	95% CI
Gender^c
Male	474	42.5	(39.7–45.5)
Female	216	42.9	(38.7–47.3)
Age (y)^d
18–35	128	39.1	(34.0–44.5)
36–45	291	45.7	(41.8–49.6)
46–55	200	44.2	(39.7–48.9)
56+	71	35.3	(29.0–42.2)
Race/ethnicity^c
Non-Hispanic white	485	41.1	(38.4–44.0)
Non-Hispanic black	20^b	41.7	(28.7–55.9)
Hispanic	35^b	50.7	(39.1–62.3)
Non-Hispanic asian	113	45.6	(39.5–51.8)
Non-Hispanic other	37^b	50.7	(39.4–61.9)
Total	690	42.7	(40.3–45.1)

^aCessation services consist of telephone quitline, a smoking cessation class, or one-on-one counseling. Always, usually or sometimes refers to cessation services.
^bInterpretation may be limited as sample size is <50.
^cSignificant at 𝑃<.05.
^dSignificant at 𝑃<.001, within group comparisons of physicians who always, usually, or sometimes referred tobacco users to cessation services compared to those who never/rarely referred.