Status:
COMPLETED
Improving the Delivery of Smoking Cessation Guidelines in Hospitalized Veterans
Lead Sponsor:
US Department of Veterans Affairs
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Jewish Hospital Quitline
Iowa State University
Conditions:
Cigarette Smoking
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief 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 quitlin...
Detailed Description
Although the majority of hospitalized VA smokers receive some form of cessation counseling during hospitalization, few receive outpatient cessation counseling and/or pharmacotherapy following discharg...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients: The study sample will include general medical inpatients, aged 18 or older, who smoke at least one cigarette per day on average, regardless of their willingness to quit smoking. To increase applicability of study results, the goal is to enroll patients with characteristics that reflect the full range and distribution of patients observed in clinical practice. Current smokers transferred from intensive care units (or other monitored beds) to a general medical ward will be eligible.
- Nurses: The study sample will include staff nurses who are assigned to a general medicine inpatient unit at one of the participating sites.
Exclusion
- Hospitalization for less than 18 hours (e.g., patients admitted for overnight observation);
- Acute medical decomposition (e.g., acute respiratory failure requiring intubation, cardiac arrest, septic shock);
- Altered mental status;
- Unstable psychiatric disorder (e.g., acute psychosis);
- Dementia;
- Communication barrier (unable to speak English, hard of hearing, aphasic);
- Pregnancy;
- Terminal illness (\<12 month life expectancy);
- No access to a phone or the absence of a permanent address;
- Admitted for treatment of substance abuse.
- No patient will be included unless they are able to provide informed consent and agree to be contacted by telephone during follow-up (to assess smoking status).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
May 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
August 1 2013
Estimated Enrollment :
898 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00816036
Start Date
May 1 2009
End Date
August 1 2013
Last Update
April 27 2015
Active Locations (4)
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1
VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System, Denver, CO
Denver, Colorado, United States, 80220
2
Iowa City VA Health Care System, Iowa City, IA
Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52246-2208
3
Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55417
4
VA Medical Center, Omaha
Omaha, Nebraska, United States, 68105-1873