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Implementing Guidelines for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Trial of Evidence-Based Quality Improvement

NCT00012987 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 2500

Last updated 2015-04-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Smoking is a serious and common health risk among veterans. Given the press of national initiatives and local incentives to improve smoking cessation care in response to VA performance measures, this study tests a widely applicable approach to clinical practice guidelines implementation, namely evidence-based quality improvement, which is directly relevant to the translation of efficacious treatments into enhancements in VA health care policy and practice. Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) focuses on improved provider adherence to smoking cessation guidelines and a decrease in patient smoking rates in a manner designed to produce short- and long-term health improvements and cost benefits at the organizational level.

Conditions

  • Smoking
  • Smoking Cessation
  • Quality Improvement

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Quality Improvement

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Scott E Sherman, MD MPH · VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, CA

  • Elizabeth M. Yano, PhD MSPH · VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Sepulveda, CA

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Completion
2002-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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