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

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Delivery of Health Care; Smoking Cessation
• Interventions: Other: New, improved smoking cessation management module

• Registration Number: NCT01004276
• Lead Sponsor: McMaster University

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2009-10
• Study First Submitted: 2009-10-28
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-10-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2009-10-28
• Study First Posted: 2009-10-29
• Last Update Posted: 2009-10-29
• Study Start: 2009-11
• Primary Completion: 2010-04
• Study Completion: 2010-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

• Physician subscribers to P-PROMPT CDMS

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Exclusion Criteria

• Paper users
• Physicians expected to retire during the course of the study
• Physicians whose billing files are not set-up with DataSynch

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Improved module	New, improved smoking cessation management module	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Chronic disease management system's activity log	monthly post-intervention
Smoker Identifying Cards	3 months post-intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Smoking cessation counselling billing codes from physician's remittance advice files	monthly post-intervention

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

McMaster University; 🇨🇦 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health; 🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario, Canada