Fidelity monitoring across the seven studies in the Consortium of Hospitals Advancing Research on Tobacco (CHART).

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:This paper describes fidelity monitoring (treatment differentiation, training, delivery, receipt and enactment) across the seven National Institutes of Health-supported Consortium of Hospitals Advancing Research on Tobacco (CHART) studies. The objectives of the study were to describe approaches to monitoring fidelity including treatment differentiation (lack of crossover), provider training, provider delivery of treatment, patient receipt of treatment, and patient enactment (behavior) and provide examples of application of these principles. METHODS:Conducted between 2010 and 2014 and collectively enrolling over 9500 inpatient cigarette smokers, the CHART studies tested different smoking cessation interventions (counseling, medications, and follow-up calls) shown to be efficaciou

SUBMITTER: Duffy SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4557818 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature