Audit of prescribed nicotine replacement therapy to hospital inpatients who smoke

Barbara A Hawkshaw,* Yeqin Zuo^†

1 Health Promotion Unit, Central Sydney Area Health Service, Level 9 North, King George V Building, RPAH, Missenden Rd, Camperdown, NSW 2050
2 Cancer Institute NSW, Sydney, NSW

Correspondence: barbara.hawkshaw@email.cs.nsw.gov.au

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