Hospital-based Patient Navigation and Smoking Cessation

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Conditions studied: Smoking Cessation

In brief

In a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT), smokers hospitalized on the general internal medicine or family medicine service will be randomized to: 1) enhanced traditional care (ETC), or 2) patient navigation (PN). Patients will be assessed at 3 months for self-report of quitting, use of smoking cessation medications, and use of counseling in the outpatient setting. Medical charts will be reviewed to ascertain if a prescription for smoking cessation medications was sent to the participants' pharmacy (primary outcome), if participants received inpatient tobacco counseling from the Tobacco Treatment Service (TTS), and whether they had a diagnosis of mental health and substance use.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03452371

Run by

Boston Medical Center

People needed

44

Starts

2018-06-04

Expected to finish

2019-06-04

Last updated by the study team

2020-03-31

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• ≥ 18 years of age
• Hospitalized on the General Internal Medicine or Family Medicine service
• Have a primary care provider at BMC
• Smoked ≥1 cigarettes/day in the past month
• Must have plans to quit smoking
• Read, understand, speak English
• Possession of a telephone (home or cell)
• Able to consent

You may not qualify if…

• Cannot give informed consent or participate in counseling due to psychiatric or cognitive impairment or communication barrier
• Admitted to surgical, obstetric or psychiatric units
• Estimated life expectancy of <12 months
• Medical instability

Where it is running

• Boston Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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