Leverage points to improve smoking cessation treatment in a large tertiary care hospital: a systems-based mixed methods study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To generate system insights on patient and provider levers and strategies that must be activated to improve hospital-based smoking cessation treatment.

Design

Mixed methods study including a series of in-depth group model building sessions, which informed the design of an online survey completed by healthcare providers and a structured interview protocol administered at the bedside to patients who smoke.

Setting

Large, tertiary care hospital in the Midwestern United States.

Participants

Group model building: 28 healthcare providers and 22 previously-hospitalised patients; Online survey: 308 healthcare providers; Bedside interviews: 205 hospitalised patients.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Hypothesis-generating, par

SUBMITTER: Ramsey AT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6609123 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature