Sustained care intervention and postdischarge smoking cessation among hospitalized adults: a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Health care systems need effective models to manage chronic diseases like tobacco dependence across transitions in care. Hospitalizations provide opportunities for smokers to quit, but research suggests that hospital-delivered interventions are effective only if treatment continues after discharge.

Objective

To determine whether an intervention to sustain tobacco treatment after hospital discharge increases smoking cessation rates compared with standard care.

Design, setting, and participants

A randomized clinical trial compared sustained care (a postdischarge tobacco cessation intervention) with standard care among 397 hospitalized daily smokers (mean age, 53 years; 48% were males; 81% were non-Hispanic whites) who wanted to quit smoking after discharge an

SUBMITTER: Rigotti NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4507269 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature