EHR-Based and Fax-Based Referral to a Tobacco Quitline: A Comparative Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Tobacco Use Cessation, Tobacco Smoking

In brief

This study is designed to assess whether completely electronic, HIPAA-compliant, EHR-based, closed-loop referrals for tobacco cessation from primary care clinics to a state telephone tobacco quitline service can increase the number/percentage of adult tobacco users receiving evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment when compared to paper-based fax referrals. This study also will survey clinic staff to evaluate satisfaction with the referral process.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02735382

Run by

University of Wisconsin, Madison

People needed

14930

Starts

2016-09-01

Expected to finish

2018-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-09-03

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• The presence of discrete primary care clinical services within the clinic (defined as general internal medicine or family medicine clinical services);
• At least three primary care clinician providers in the clinic (physicians or nurse practitioners/physician assistants who see patients independently of a physician);
• A total primary care clinical volume of at least 60 patients each week;
• An existing EHR requirement for staff to document tobacco use status including smoking status on all adult patients visiting the clinic at every visit;
• A capacity to enumerate patient visit information including adult patients/month and adult tobacco users/month by clinician and by clinic;
• A willingness to participate in the proposed research;
• A lead physician or a clinic manager on site who agree to serve as a clinic champion for the project;
• Prior use of the fax referral system to refer patients to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line with use data available for the 12 months prior to study launch;
• A willingness to accept random assignment to either of the two experimental conditions.

You may not qualify if…

• Those clinics not meeting the above criteria (e.g. too small, limited EHR capacity).
• (Note: In this study, the clinics are the "subjects" under study. The patients that will be referred by the clinic to the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line will be least 18 years old and Cigarette smokers)

Where it is running

• University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention, School of Medicine and Public Health — Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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