Efficacy of Digital Outreach Strategies for Collecting Smoking Data: Pragmatic Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco smoking is an important risk factor for disease, but inaccurate smoking history data in the electronic medical record (EMR) limits the reach of lung cancer screening (LCS) and tobacco cessation interventions. Patient-generated health data is a novel approach to documenting smoking history; however, the comparative effectiveness of different approaches is unclear.

Objective

We designed a quality improvement intervention to evaluate the effectiveness of portal questionnaires compared to SMS text message-based surveys, to compare message frames, and to evaluate the completeness of patient-generated smoking histories.

Methods

We randomly assigned patients aged between 50 and 80 years with a history of tobacco use who identified English as a preferred la

SUBMITTER: Kearney LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10891497 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature