Smoking Interventions for Hospital Patients

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

397 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-07-31

Study Completion Date

2012-12-31

Brief Summary

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Cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Nearly 4 million U.S. smokers are hospitalized each year, many of them at high risk for tobacco-related disease or death. A hospital admission provides an opportunity for a smoker to quit. Smoking cessation counseling provided in the hospital is effective, but only if it continues for \>1 month after discharge. Smoking cessation medications add benefit to counseling but are not often used. The challenge is to translate this efficacy research into routine clinical practice. The major barrier is to make the transition from inpatient to outpatient care. An evidence-based, cost-effective intervention model that can be adopted by U.S. hospitals is needed to realize the potential impact of hospital smoking interventions.

The Specific Aim of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled comparative effectiveness trial of two strategies to promote smoking cessation in hospitalized patients: (1) a hospital-only intervention that meets the current standard of the National Hospital Quality Measures("Standard Care"), and (2) an "Extended Care Management" model with 2 components that aims to encourage and facilitate the sustained use of smoking cessation treatment (counseling and medication use) after discharge in order to achieve long-term abstinence. It adds to Standard Care 3 months of telephone-based contact after discharge and feature 2 innovations: (1) to increase medication use, smokers willing to make a quit attempt receive a free, refillable 30-day sample of their choice of FDA-approved smoking cessation medication at hospital discharge; (2) to increase counseling cost-effectiveness, interactive voice recognition (IVR) technology is used to make automated telephone calls to identify the smokers interested in or most likely to benefit from continued counseling after discharge. The trial will enroll 330 adult smokers admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital, a 900-bed teaching hospital. Outcomes will be measured 1,3 and 6 months after hospital discharge. Study hypotheses are that the enhanced care arm, compared to usual care, is feasible and will increase (1) the use of smoking cessation treatment after discharge, (2) the duration of post-discharge tobacco abstinence, and (3) validated tobacco abstinence 6 months after hospital discharge (primary outcome). The principal secondary outcome measure is self-reported 7-day point prevalence tobacco abstinence after hospital discharge. Other secondary endpoints include self-reported point prevalence abstinence at 1 and 3 months, prolonged abstinence (self-reported tobacco abstinence at 1, 3, and 6 months). The cost-effectiveness (cost per quit) of the interventions will be also be compared.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Cigarette Smoking

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Standard Care

Standard tobacco counseling provided to hospital inpatients as part of routine, clinical-guideline compliant care in the study hospital. No post-discharge treatment is offered in this arm.

Group Type OTHER

Standard Care

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual care provided to hospitalized smokers during their inpatient stay, with no post-discharge care management plan

Extended Care Management

In addition to Standard Care, subjects in this arm receive Extended Care Management intervention to facilitate the continued use of smoking cessation treatment (counseling and medication use) after hospital discharge. This consists of 3 months of telephone-based contact after discharge.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Extended Care Management

Intervention Type OTHER

Telephone-based care management of tobacco cessation for 3 months after hospital discharge that features 2 innovations: (1) to increase medication use, smokers receive a free refillable 30-day sample of their choice of FDA-approved smoking cessation medication (nicotine replacement, bupropion, or varenicline) at hospital discharge; (2) to increase counseling cost-effectiveness, interactive voice recognition (IVR) technology is used to make automated telephone calls to identify the smokers seeking or most likely to benefit from continued counseling after hospital discharge.

Interventions

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Extended Care Management

Telephone-based care management of tobacco cessation for 3 months after hospital discharge that features 2 innovations: (1) to increase medication use, smokers receive a free refillable 30-day sample of their choice of FDA-approved smoking cessation medication (nicotine replacement, bupropion, or varenicline) at hospital discharge; (2) to increase counseling cost-effectiveness, interactive voice recognition (IVR) technology is used to make automated telephone calls to identify the smokers seeking or most likely to benefit from continued counseling after hospital discharge.

Intervention Type OTHER

Standard Care

Usual care provided to hospitalized smokers during their inpatient stay, with no post-discharge care management plan

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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nicotine replacement therapy bupropion varenicline interactive voice response telephone counseling for smoking cessation

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Cigarette smoker (daily smoker when smoking in usual way during the month before hospital admission)
* Counseled by hospital smoking counselor during hospital stay
* Plans to stop smoking tobacco products after hospital discharge
* Appropriate for use of smoking cessation medication after discharge

Exclusion Criteria

* Expected hospital length of stay \<24 hours
* Not expected to be discharged to home
* No access to a telephone
* Unable to communicate by telephone
* Severe psychiatric or neurologic disease precluding ability to be counseled
* Pregnant, nursing, or planning to become pregnant in next 3 months
* Active substance abuse other than tobacco
* Unable to speak English

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No