Status:
COMPLETED
Primary Care Physicians' Use of Stop-Smoking Plans to Help Patients Who Are Smokers
Lead Sponsor:
Kaiser Permanente
Conditions:
Tobacco Use Disorder
Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Stop-smoking plans suggested by physicians may help patients quit smoking. Studying how physicians give stop-smoking treatment as family doctors may increase the chance of smokers receiving...
Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES: * Develop an automated coding system using existing electronic medical records (EMRs) to assess adherence to national tobacco-cessation treatment guidelines by individual physicians in th...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Primary care physician, meeting all of the following criteria:
- Practicing medicine in a family practice or internal medicine clinic
- Scheduled to see adult primary care patients for ≥ 2½ days (or 5 half days or equivalent combination of full and half days) per week
- Planning to continue full-time practice in their participating organization for at least the next 2 years
- At least 1 year of experience working with the local electronic medical record system
- Patient
- Adult smoker who visited a study physician within the past month
- PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
- Age
- Adult
- Performance status
- Not specified
- Life expectancy
- Not specified
- Hematopoietic
- Not specified
- Hepatic
- Not specified
- Renal
- Not specified
- PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
- Biologic therapy
- Not specified
- Chemotherapy
- Not specified
- Endocrine therapy
- Not specified
- Radiotherapy
- Not specified
- Surgery
- Not specified
Exclusion
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 1 2003
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
May 1 2006
Estimated Enrollment :
344 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00227786
Start Date
January 1 2003
End Date
May 1 2006
Last Update
August 16 2013
Active Locations (5)
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1
Kaiser Permanente - Aurora
Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80014
2
Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research - Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96817
3
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02114
4
Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215