Increasing Smoking Cessation Counselling in Primary Care Using a Chronic Disease Management System

McMaster University10 enrolled

Overview

This pilot study will determine the feasibility of studying a new smoking cessation management module in an existing chronic disease management system. The new module is intended to help healthcare providers deliver more smoking cessation counselling to their patients.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Delivery of Health Care Smoking Cessation

Interventions

New, improved smoking cessation management moduleOTHER

The intervention that will be tested is an improved smoking cessation management module in an existing chronic disease management system, P-PROMPT CDMS. This module includes the following components: a) the Patient Care Status and Update Form, b) the smoking registry and c) patient prompts.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Physician subscribers to P-PROMPT CDMS Exclusion Criteria: * Paper users * Physicians expected to retire during the course of the study * Physicians whose billing files are not set-up with DataSynch

Locations (2)

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Smoker Identifying Cards

Time frame: 3 months post-intervention

Chronic disease management system's activity log

Time frame: monthly post-intervention

Secondary Outcomes

Smoking cessation counselling billing codes from physician's remittance advice files

Time frame: monthly post-intervention

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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