Combining alcohol interventions with tobacco addictions treatment in primary care-the COMBAT study: a pragmatic cluster randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tobacco and alcohol use present multiplicative risk for aerodigestive cancers. Reducing alcohol consumption improves smoking cessation outcomes and reduces cancer risk. Risky alcohol consumption and smoking are often treated separately despite concurrent treatment potentially leading to better outcomes for each. However, no rapidly scalable program exists for combined interventions in primary care clinics spread across wide geographic areas. This cluster randomized trial aims to report on the effects of a novel clinical decision support system (CDSS) on intervention rates by primary care practitioners addressing risky alcohol use in a smoking cessation program.

Methods/design

We will be implementing a clinical decision support system (CDSS) in 221 primary care sit

SUBMITTER: Minian N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5437645 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature