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Improving the Delivery of Smoking Cessation Guidelines in Hospitalized Veterans
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Smoking Cessation Guideline Implementation for Cigarette Smoking. Completed, enrolled 898 participants across 4 sites.
Detailed 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.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
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.