Abstract
To determine whether an opt-out approach is effective for referral to treatment for tobacco use, we designed a clinical reminder for nurses in a primary care setting that provides a referral for patients who smoke cigarettes. We will use a two-arm, cluster-randomized design to assign nurses at the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System to test which mode of referral (opt-in vs opt-out) is more effective. All patients will be referred to evidence-based treatment for tobacco cessation including counseling from the New York State Quitline, and VetsQuit, a text messaging-based system for tobacco cessation counseling. We will measure patient engagement with the referral both in the short and long term to determine if referral modality had an impact on tobacco cessation treatment. We will also measure nurse engagement with the referral before, during, and after the implementation of the reminder to determine whether an opt-out approach is cost effective at the health system level. At the conclusion of this project, we expect to have developed and tested an opt-out system for increasing tobacco cessation treatment for Veterans in VA primary care and to have a thorough understanding of factors associated with implementation. Trial Registration: Clinicaltrials.gov
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 106716 |
Journal | Contemporary Clinical Trials |
Volume | 116 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. This work was funded by the VA Health Services Research and Development Service to Drs. Scott E. Sherman and Steven Fu under the Investigator Initiated Award IIR 17-065.
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Keywords
- Electronic health record
- Opt-out approach
- Smoking cessation
- Telephone quit lines
- Text message cessation program
- Tobacco treatment
- Tobacco use
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Clinical Trial Protocol
- Journal Article
- Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.