Clinical trial NCT00989755: Center for Disease Control (CDC) Fax to Quit/Academic Detailing Grant
Official title: An Evaluation of the Fax to Quit Program and Wisconsin Tobacco Quitline Utilization by Southeastern Wisconsin Clinics
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Smoking
Keywords: Tobacco dependence treatment in primary health care setting
Fax to Quit
Fax to Quit plus Enhanced Academic Detailing
Fax referral
Quitline
Lead sponsor: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2009-10-05
Enrollment: 49
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to evaluate Fax to Quit (F2Q) - a strategy that links state quitlines to health care delivery systems. FQ capitalizes upon the healthcare visit as an opportunity for intervention, consistent with the finding that approximately 70% of smokers visit a primary care physician each year. Successful integration of quitlines into healthcare delivery will transform regular healthcare visits into easily implemented, cost-beneficial avenues via which smokers all across America will be routinely inducted into effective cessation intervention. F2Q will be evaluated as follows:

1. Does F2Q increase contacts and "quality contacts," between the quitline and patients who smoke and receive health care at a participating clinic? A "quality contact" is defined as a quitline referral that results in the individual enrolling in the quitline counseling services. This aim will be assessed by measuring the rates of quitline referrals in 49 clinics before and after F2Q has been implemented.
2. Are contact rates and enrollment rates of F2Q increased by "Enhanced Academic Detailing" at clinic sites (with enhanced academic detailing comprising ongoing training/technical assistance as well as performance feedback)?
3. What are the features of the Fax to Quit (F2Q) and Fax to Quit plus Enhanced Academic Detailing (F2Q + EAD) interventions that key clinic personnel found helpful and easy to implement, as well as features that were unhelpful and difficult? This information will be gathered in qualitative assessments that also will identify clinic strategies and organizational features that facilitated successful implementation.
4. What are the incremental costs of instating and sustaining F2Q and F2Q + EAD and how do these costs compare to other quitline promotional strategies (e.g., paid media, medication give-away programs)?


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult (18 years of age or older)
* Smoker seeking medical care from general practice (internal medicine) clinic (clinic enrolled in study)
* Smoker motivated to make a quit attempt

Exclusion Criteria:

* None

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Fax to Quit referrals
timeFrame: One year following enrollment
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Madison
country: United States
facility: Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention
state: Wisconsin
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Wisconsin--CTRI
name: Michael C Fiore, MD MPH MBA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Sheffer MA, Baker TB, Fraser DL, Adsit RT, McAfee TA, Fiore MC. Fax referrals, academic detailing, and tobacco quitline use: a randomized trial. Am J Prev Med. 2012 Jan;42(1):21-8. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2011.08.028.