Table 2 Themes, Major and Minor Categories
From: Clinician perceptions of factors influencing referrals to a smoking cessation program
Theme | Major Category | Minor Category |
|---|---|---|
Procedure | Ask/Identification | forms (flowsheet, encounter form, chart intake, history, problem list) |
| Â | Â | process (initial interview, annual physical, for chronic disease or respiratory infection) |
| Â | Â | staff (nurse, physician) |
Procedure | Assessment | interest in quitting |
| Â | Â | risk of disease |
| Â | Â | habits |
Procedure | Advise/Assistance/Arrange | stage of change |
| Â | Â | pharmacotherapy |
| Â | Â | Counseling |
| Â | Â | Brochures |
| Â | Â | Programs |
| Â | Â | Follow-up visit |
Barrier | Provider | Provider Characteristics (forgetfulness, program knowledge, fear of "badgering" patient) |
| Â | Â | Practice characteristics (type, staff turnover, lack of billing code) |
| Â | Â | Patient characteristics (desire to quit, insurance type, addiction) |
Benefit | Quit line Program | Single source for referral |
| Â | Â | Personalized attention |
Barrier | Quit line Program | Provider Characteristics (lack of reminders, lack of feedback, only for one type of insurance, lack of advertising) |
| Â | Â | Patient Characteristics (comfort with program, short term solution, insurance type) |
Procedure | Satisfaction | Good (identification, assessment, advise) |
| Â | Â | Poor (assistance, arrangement, follow-up) |
Motivation | Provider | Individual (family death, concern for own health, patient care) |
| Â | Â | Program (ease, one referral, feedback) |
| Â | Â | General (healthcare costs, good medicine) |
Motivation | Patient | Cost |
| Â | Â | Support/feedback |
Incentives | Provider | Physician responsibility |
| Â | Â | Code for patient education/prevention |