Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation treatment initiated during psychiatric hospitalization: analysis from a randomized, controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We examined the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation treatment for psychiatric inpatients.

Method

Smokers, regardless of intention to quit, were recruited during psychiatric hospitalization and randomized to receive stage-based smoking cessation services or usual aftercare. Smoking cessation services, quality of life, and biochemically verified abstinence from cigarettes were assessed during 18 months of follow-up. A Markov model of cost-effectiveness over a lifetime horizon was constructed using trial findings and parameters obtained in a review of the literature on quit and relapse rates and the effect of smoking on health care cost, quality of life, and mortality.

Results

Among 223 smokers randomized between 2006 and 2008, the mean cost of smoking cess

SUBMITTER: Barnett PG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4988964 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature