Changing the default for tobacco-cessation treatment in an inpatient setting: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.
Trials
; 18(1): 379, 2017 08 14.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Most health care providers do not treat tobacco dependence routinely. This may in part be due to the treatment "default." Current treatment guidelines recommend that providers (1) ask patients if they are willing to quit and (2) provide cessation-focused medications and counseling only to smokers who state that they are willing to quit. The default is that patients have to "opt in" to receive cessation assistance providers ask smokers if they are willing to quit, and only offer medications and cessation support to those who say "yes." This drastically limits the reach of cessation services because, at any given encounter, only one in three smokers say that they are ready to quit. The objective of this study is to determine the impact of providing all smokers with tobacco-cessation treatment unless they refuse it (OPT OUT) versus current practice-screening for readiness and only offering treatment to smokers who say they are ready to quit (OPT IN).METHODS:
This individually randomized clinical trial is conducted in a tertiary-care hospital. We will conduct the trial among up to 1000 randomly selected hospitalized smokers to determine the population impact of changing the treatment default, identify mediators of outcome, and determine the cost-effectiveness of this new, highly proactive approach. This is a population-based study that targets an endpoint of vital interest; applies minimal eligibility criteria to broaden generalizability; and utilizes hospital staff for interventions to ensure long-term sustainability. The study employs delayed consent and an innovative Bayesian adaptive design to evaluate a major shift in our approach to care. If effective, this change would expand the reach of tobacco-cessation treatment from 30% to 100% of smokers.DISCUSSION:
Regardless of outcome, the trial will provide a model of how to alter and evaluate the impact of health care defaults. If OPT OUT proves to be more effective, it will expand the population eligible for cessation treatment by over 300%. It will also simplify the tobacco-cessation treatment algorithm, and relieve busy health care providers of the burden of evaluating readiness to quit. TRIAL REGISTRATION Clinical Trials Registration, ID NCT02721082 . Registered on 22 March 2016.Palavras-chave
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Temas:
Geral
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Tabagismo
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Aceitação pelo Paciente de Cuidados de Saúde
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Fumar
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Abandono do Hábito de Fumar
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Agonistas Nicotínicos
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Aconselhamento
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Dispositivos para o Abandono do Uso de Tabaco
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Fumantes
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Pacientes Internados
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
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Diagnostic_studies
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Guideline
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Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Trials
Assunto da revista:
MEDICINA
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TERAPEUTICA
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos