Health evaluation and referral assistant: a randomized controlled trial to improve smoking cessation among emergency department patients

Edwin D Boudreaux, Beau Abar, Brianna Haskins, Brigitte Bauman, Grant Grissom, Edwin D Boudreaux, Beau Abar, Brianna Haskins, Brigitte Bauman, Grant Grissom

Abstract

Background: Computer technologies hold promise for implementing tobacco screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT). This study aims to evaluate a computerized tobacco SBIRT system called the Health Evaluation and Referral Assistant (HERA).

Methods: Smokers (n = 421) presenting to an emergency department were randomly assigned to the HERA or a minimal-treatment Control and were followed for 3 months. Analyses compared smoking cessation treatment provider contact, treatment initiation, treatment completion, and smoking behavior across condition using univariable comparisons, generalized estimating equations (GEE), and post hoc Chi square analyses.

Results: HERA participants were more likely to initiate contact with a treatment provider but did not differ on treatment initiation, quit attempts, or sustained abstinence. Subanalyses revealed HERA participants who accepted a faxed referral were more likely to initiate treatment but were not more likely to stop smoking.

Conclusions: The HERA promoted initial contact with a smoking cessation provider and the faxed referral further promoted treatment initiation, but it did not lead to improved abstinence.

Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov number NCT01153373.

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Enrollment flow for the HERA RCT—tobacco

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