Response to Glasgow

We appreciate Dr. Glasgow’s (1) interest in our article (2) and the opportunity to respond to his comments. He seems to impute a biased worldview to our decision to drop smoking cessation counseling from chart audits subsequent to the baseline audit. First, we can assure him that we were not disinterested in the issue of smoking, as evidenced by the fact that this was one of the areas identified up front as important by the primary care physicians who invited us into their community. Data collection limitations alone drove the decision to drop this measure from subsequent analyses. Our sole source of data for the study was the charts kept by a …