Smoking Cessation Invention in the Emergency Department (ED)
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation, Tobacco Use Cessation, Health Behavior
In brief
The emergency department (ED) serves a vital and growing role in the US health care system, responsible for both the delivery of emergent medical care and for safety-net care for populations without traditional access to health services. Uninsured populations rely significantly on the safety-net services of the ED. Between 2000-2005 the number of uninsured Americans increased from 39.6 million to 46.1 million, and this growth is expected to continue. Many health policy analysts consider the ED to be an effective place to provide preventative care. Prophylactic tetanus immunization, for example, has been a successful preventive health intervention that has become a standard of care in the ED setting. Brief smoking cessation interventions have been introduced in the ED but have not had great success based on lack of follow-up and continuity. Our study is novel in that it introduces a brief smoking intervention through use of an established, federally-funded and federally-sponsored cessation counseling resource, the National Smoking Cessation Quit Line, also available at smokefree.gov. This is a joint initiative between the Tobacco Control Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since ED patients who smoke often lack the ability to use self-help cessation resources, we hypothesize that by introducing this population to the counselors on the National Smoking Cessation Quit Line (also called the 1-800-QUIT-NOW line) during the ED visit via phone, that this new brief intervention would have a realizable and significant effect on smoking cessation among the this population.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01173653
- Run by
- Vanderbilt University
- People needed
- 199
- Starts
- 2010-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2011-01-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2012-12-27
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients 18 years of age and older
- Patients who are active smokers who present to the Adult ED at VUMC
- Patients who are able to give informed verbal consent
- Patients with stable vital signs
You may not qualify if…
- Patients who are unable to provide consent
- Patients who are unable to communicate verbally as determined by the treating attending physician and/or triage nurse. This includes patients with alterations in mental status, who are cognitively impaired, or are intoxicated or on drugs
- Patients with abnormal vital signs, and triage ratings (ES1 score 1) suggesting immediate life threatening illness
Where it is running
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Emergency Medicine — Nashville, Tennessee, United States
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