Referring Hospitalized Smokers to Outpatient Quit Services: A Randomized Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Linking 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.

Design

A 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/participants

Over 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

SUBMITTER: Fellows JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5031367 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature