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Randomized Controlled Trial
Referring Hospitalized Smokers to Outpatient Quit Services: A Randomized Trial.
- Jeffrey L Fellows, Richard A Mularski, Michael C Leo, Charles J Bentz, Lisa A Waiwaiole, Melanie C Francisco, Kimberly Funkhouser, and Catherine M Stoney.
- Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon. Electronic address: jeffrey.fellows@kpchr.org.
- Am J Prev Med. 2016 Oct 1; 51 (4): 609619609-19.
IntroductionLinking outpatient cessation services to bedside counseling for hospitalized smokers can improve long-run quit rates. Adding an assisted referral (AR) offer to a tobacco treatment specialist consult service fits the team approach to care in U.S. hospitals.DesignA two-arm patient-randomized trial tested the effectiveness of adding an AR offer to outpatient smoking-cessation services and interactive voice recognition (AR+IVR) follow-up to a usual care (UC) tobacco-cessation consult for hospitalized smokers.Setting/ParticipantsOver 24 months (November 2011-November 2013), 898 hospitalized adult smokers interested in quitting smoking were recruited from three large hospitals in the Portland, Oregon, area: an integrated group model HMO (n=622), a community hospital (n=195), and an academic health center (n=81).InterventionTobacco treatment specialists identified smokers and provided an intensive bedside tobacco use assessment and cessation consultation (UC). AR+IVR recipients also received proactive ARs to available outpatient counseling programs and medications, and linked patients to a tailored IVR telephone follow-up system.Main Outcome MeasuresThe primary outcome was self-reported 30-day abstinence at 6-month follow-up. Secondary outcomes included self-reported and continuous abstinence and biochemically confirmed 7-day abstinence at 6 months. Follow-up was completed in September 2014; data were analyzed in 2015.ResultsA total of 597 and 301 hospitalized smokers were randomized to AR+IVR and UC, respectively. AR+IVR and UC recipients received 19.3 and 17.0 minutes of bedside counseling (p=0.372), respectively. Most (58%) AR+IVR patients accepted referrals for counseling, 43% accepted medications, and 28% accepted both. Self-reported 30-day abstinence for AR+IVR (17.9%) and UC (17.3%) were not statistically significant (p=0.569). Differences in 7-day, continuous, and biochemically confirmed abstinence by treatment group also were insignificant, overall and adjusting for site.ConclusionsAdding an AR to outpatient counseling and medications did not increase cigarette abstinence at 6 months compared to UC alone.Copyright © 2016 American Journal of Preventive Medicine. All rights reserved.
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