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

McMaster University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Delivery of Health Care; Smoking Cessation

Treatments: Other: New, improved smoking cessation management module

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01004276

09-341

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

Improved module

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: New, improved smoking cessation management module

Standard module

No Intervention group