Evaluation of Electronic Portal Messaging and Embedded Asynchronous Care on Physician-Assisted Smoking Quit Attempts

Summary

Among 10 PCPs, 200 adult smokers with an active patient portal who had been seen by a PCP within 12 months were randomly selected and randomly assigned to one of four conditions to compare the quit attempts of patients sent electronic outreach with and without asynchronous care link and to compare the quit attempts of patients who recieved the portal message from PCP or the health system.

Conditions

• Smoking, Tobacco

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Physician Sent Outreach with Embedded Asynchronous Care in Portal Message

PCPs sent a portal message encouraging a quit attempt embedded a link to asynchronous care within a portal message encouraging a quit attempt in order to compare EMR-documented, physician-assisted quit attempts to those who received messages without the link 30 days after messages were sent.

BEHAVIORAL

Physician Sent Outreach without Embedded Asynchronous Care in Portal Message

Physician sent a portal message encouraging a quit attempt without a link to asynchronous care within a portal message encouraging a quit attempt in order to compare EMR-documented, physician-assisted quit attempts to those who received messages without the link 30 days after messages were sent.

BEHAVIORAL

System Sent Outreach with Embedded Asynchronous Care in Portal Message

Health System sent a portal message encouraging a quit attempt embedded a link to asynchronous care within a portal message encouraging a quit attempt in order to compare EMR-documented, physician-assisted quit attempts to those who received messages without the link 30 days after messages were sent.

BEHAVIORAL

System Sent Outreach without Embedded Asynchronous Care in Portal Message

Health System sent a portal message encouraging a quit attempt without a link to asynchronous care within a portal message encouraging a quit attempt in order to compare EMR-documented, physician-assisted quit attempts to those who received messages without the link 30 days after messages were sent. Half of the messages came from the patient's PCP and the other half came from the health system to determine if communication from a patient's physician was associated with more quit attempts.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Marjorie A Erdmann, MS · Oklahoma State University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

QUADRUPLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-01-13

Primary Completion

2020-02-24

Completion

2020-12-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations