Cover: A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment

A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative

Published in: Nicotine and Tobacco Research, v. 13, no. 5, Letter, May 2011, p. 399-400

Posted on RAND.org on January 17, 2011

by William G. Shadel, Maria Orlando Edelen, Joan S. Tucker

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

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