Patient navigation among recently hospitalized smokers to promote tobacco treatment: Results from a randomized exploratory pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Adding screening for health-related social needs to tobacco treatment interventions initiated during hospitalizations may improve intervention effectiveness among vulnerable populations. Our objective was to examine the effect the acceptability and feasibility of a intervention in which a patient navigator screens for and addresses social needs to increase receipt of smoking cessation medication among recently hospitalized smokers at a safety-net hospital.

Methods

In a two-group randomized exploratory pilot study, we assigned hospitalized smokers to either the Enhanced Traditional Control (ETC) group (list of smoking cessation resources) or ETC + Patient Navigation (up to 10 h of navigation over a 3-month period, in which a navigator screens for and addresses he

SUBMITTER: Quintiliani LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7946867 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature