Recommendations in diagnosis and treatment of tobacco cessation. Consensus document RESUMEN El tabaquismo es la principal causa de muert e evitable en los países desarrollados. Todos los p rofesionales sanitarios jugamos un papel clave en su control. Es fundamental realizar un corre c t o diagnóstico de las características de cada fumador para de esa forma ofertarle su tratamiento más adecuado. A lo largo de este documento de consenso entre las sociedades científicas que agrupan a los profesionales sanitarios más interesados en el tabaquismo, hemos definido un grupo de datos clínicos y analíticos que deben ser considerados para establecer el conjunto mínimo de datos diagnósticos en el fumador. Además recomendamos una actividad terapéutica adecuada a las características diagnósticas de cada fumador. Este conjunto mínimo de datos es la base imprescindible para establecer el tratamiento más adecuado a cada individuo con el objetivo de que el paciente pro g rese en el proceso de abandono del tabaco y consiga la abstinencia tabáquica en el más corto periodo de tiempo posible y con el menor coste personal. Así mismo este conjunto mínimo de datos permite racionalizar la intervención del profesional sanitario conforme a criterios de eficacia y eficiencia.Palabras clave: Tabaquismo. Diagnóstico. Abandono de tabaco. Documento de consenso.
ABSTRACTConsumption of tobacco is the main cause of avoidable death in the developed countries. All the s a n i t a ry professionals play a key paper in their c o n t rol. It is fundamental to carry out a corre c t diagnosis of each smoker's characteristics for offering him their more appropriate tre a t m e n t . Along this consensus document among the scientific societies that contain the most interested sanit a ry professionals in the treatment of tobacco, it has been defined a group of clinical and analytic data that should be considered to establish the minimum group of data diagnoses in the smoker. We also recommend an appropriate therapeutic activity to each smoker's characteristic. This minimum g roup of data is the indispensable base to establish the most appropriate treatment to each individual with the objective of that the patient pro g resses in its process of tobacco cessation and stop to smoke in the shortest period of time and with the smallest personal cost. Likewise this minimum group of data allows to rationalize the intervention of the sanit a ry professional according to approaches of effectiveness and efficiency.
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