A randomized trial of decision support for tobacco dependence treatment in an inpatient electronic medical record: clinical results.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smokers usually abstain from tobacco while hospitalized but relapse after discharge. Inpatient interventions may encourage sustained quitting. We previously demonstrated that a decision support tool embedded in an electronic health record (EHR) improved physicians' treatment of hospitalized smokers. This report describes the effect on quit rates of this decision support tool and order set for hospitalized smokers.

Methods

In a single hospital system, 254 physicians were randomized 1:1 to receive a decision support tool and order set, embedded in the EHR. When an adult patient was admitted to a medical service, an electronic alert appeared if current smoking was recorded in the EHR. For physicians receiving the intervention, the alert linked to an order set for tob

SUBMITTER: Bernstein SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6343239 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature