Smoking Cessation in Rural Hospitals

Centralized Disease Management for Rural Hospitalized Smokers

Our long-term goal is to improve smoking cessation treatment for rural smokers. The objective is to assess the effectiveness of a centralized disease management program for hospitalized smokers that coordinates care across treatment settings and links smokers to existing resources. Our central hypothesis is that Centralized Disease Management (CDM) will increase the use of smoking cessation treatments and lead to greater long term smoking cessation than Counseling alone. Demonstrating the effectiveness of a disease management program and identifying the critical components of such a program will provide a basis for improving the utilization of existing smoking cessation resources while enhancing the treatment of rural hospitalized smokers.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Smoking Cessation
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Centralized disease management (CDM); Behavioral: Counseling (C)

Detailed Description

The proposed study will use a randomized clinical trial design to examine the effectiveness of centralized disease management (CDM) versus counseling alone (C) for smoking cessation. Hospitalized smokers in 30 rural critical access hospitals will be randomly assigned to either CDM (n=303) or C (n=303). Participants in both arms of the study will receive in-hospital smoking cessation counseling via telephone followed by 4 outpatient telephone-based counseling calls. The content and timing of these counseling calls are designed to emulate models of smoking cessation counseling that have been previously shown to be effective for hospitalized smokers. For recipients assigned to CDM, the counseling will be streamlined to allow time on the calls for specific disease management interventions, including screening for contraindications to pharmacotherapy and linking medication choices to the smoker's insurance coverage. After completing calls with CDM participants, the Tobacco Treatment Specialists will coordinate therapy with the patient's health care providers by providing them with brief consultation reports, prepared order sheets for inpatient treatment, and outpatient prescription requests. Six months postdischarge, participants in both groups will be contacted again, and persistent or relapsed smokers will be offered another cycle of the C or CDM intervention.

Assessments will be conducted at baseline and at months 3, 6, and 12. The primary outcome of interest will be biochemically verified 7-day point prevalence abstinence at 12 months. Secondary endpoints include number of quit attempts and number of cigarettes smoked (among continuing smokers), pharmacotherapy utilization, duration of pharmacotherapy utilization, and the extent of discussions with the healthcare provider. We will also examine the marginal cost-effectiveness of the intervention.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 606
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Kansas
    • Kansas City, Kansas, United States, 66160
      • University of Kansas Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Hospitalized in a participating rural hospital
• Aged 18 years or older
• Smoke cigarettes on >25 of the last 30 days
• Have a home address and telephone
• Willing to participate in phone assessments

Exclusion Criteria:

• Terminal medical condition with life expectancy <1 year
• Pregnant

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experimental 1; Experimental: 1 Centralized disease management	Behavioral: Centralized disease management (CDM); Centralized Disease Management (CDM) arm will receive smoking cessation counseling with coordination of pharmacotherapy with their insurance coverage and their health care provider
Experimental: Experimental 2; Experimental: 2 Counseling alone	Behavioral: Counseling (C); Counseling (C) arm will receive counseling without the care coordination services.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants With 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence From Cigarettes, Validated	Participant-reported 7-day point prevalence abstinence from cigarettes, validated by salivary cotinine (< 15ng/ml) or proxy. Participants who did not respond to the survey were considered current smokers.	12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of Participants With 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence at 3 Months, Self-reported	7-day point prevalence abstinence at 3 months, self-reported. Participants who did not respond were considered smokers.	3 months
Number of Participants With 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence at 6 Months, Self-reported	7-day point prevalence abstinence at 6 months, self-reported. Participants who did not respond were considered smokers.	6 months
Number of Participants With 7-day Point Prevalence Abstinence at 12 Months, Self-reported	7-day point prevalence abstinence at 12 months, self-reported. Participants who did not respond were considered smokers.	12 months
Number of Participants Reporting Utilization of Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy During First 6 Months		6 months
Number of Participants Reporting Utilization of Smoking Cessation Pharmacotherapy Between 6 and 12 Months		12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Edward Ellerbeck, MD, MPH
• Collaborators: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Edward Ellerbeck, MD, MPH, University of Kansas Medical Center

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Ellerbeck EF, Cox LS, Hui SA, Keighley J, Hutcheson TD, Fitzgerald SA, Cupertino AP, Greiner KA, Rigotti NA, Miller NH, Rabius V, Richter KP. Impact of Adding Telephone-Based Care Coordination to Standard Telephone-Based Smoking Cessation Counseling Post-hospital Discharge: a Randomized Controlled Trial. J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Dec;34(12):2804-2811. doi: 10.1007/s11606-019-05220-2. Epub 2019 Jul 31.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2010
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 1, 2015
• Study Completion (Actual): February 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 4, 2010
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 4, 2010
• First Posted (Estimate): February 5, 2010

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 8, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 4, 2019
• Last Verified: April 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 5R01CA101963-07 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)