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Improving the Delivery of Smoking Cessation Guidelines in Hospitalized Veterans

NCT00816036 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 898

Last updated 2015-04-27

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Summary

The primary objective of this study is to determine whether a nurse-initiated intervention, which couples brief inpatient counseling and proactive telephone counseling by a centralized tobacco quitline, improves 6-month cessation rates in hospitalized VA smokers. If proven effective, the proposed intervention will provide a practical strategy to enhance the adoption and implementation of recommended smoking cessation procedures in VA hospitals, and will demonstrate the utility of quitlines in preventing relapse in hospitalized smokers once they leave the hospital.

Conditions

  • Cigarette Smoking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Smoking Cessation Guideline Implementation

1\. Enhanced academic detailing of staff nurses (face-to-face training, feedback on group performance, and periodic check-ins with both nurse managers and peer leaders); 2. Adaptation of the computerized information system (modified nursing admission database that includes pertinent questions about smoking, computerized "quick orders" for smoking cessation medications), 3) Patient self-management support (self-help materials, fax referral of motivated patients to state quit line), and 4) nursing peer leaders on each study unit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • David A. Katz, MD MSc · Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-05-31
Primary Completion
2013-06-30
Completion
2013-08-31

Countries

  • United States

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