Trial reportBMJ (Clinical research ed.)1992
Randomised trial of three approaches for marketing smoking cessation programmes to Australian general practitioners.
Trial report in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1992. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 86 citations in OpenAlex.
- Strategies to improve smoking cessation rates in primary care.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Training health professionals in smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Educational outreach visits: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2007Pooled it
- Effectiveness of training health professionals to provide smoking cessation interventions: systematic review of randomised controlled trials.Quality in health care : QHC · 1994Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of practice facilitation within primary care settings.Annals of family medicinePooled it
- Acceptability and effectiveness of opportunistic referral of smokers to telephone cessation advice from a nurse: a randomised trial in Australian general practice.BMC family practice · 2008Trial
- Cost savings associated with improving appropriate and reducing inappropriate preventive care: cost-consequences analysis.BMC health services research · 2005Trial
- Labeling smokers' charts with a "smoker" sticker: results of a randomized controlled trial among private practitioners.Journal of general internal medicine · 2000Trial
- A randomized trial of three marketing strategies to disseminate a screening and brief alcohol intervention programme to general practitioners.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1999Trial
- Changing preventive practice: a controlled trial on the effects of outreach visits to organise prevention of cardiovascular disease.Quality in health care : QHC · 1997Trial
- Study protocol for a factorial-randomized controlled trial evaluating the implementation, costs, effectiveness, and sustainment of digital therapeutics for substance use disorder in primary care (DIGITS Trial).Implementation science : IS · 2023Article
- What is the extent and quality of documentation and reporting of fidelity to implementation strategies: a scoping review.Implementation science : IS · 2015Article
- Academic Detailing Interventions Improve Tobacco Use Treatment among Physicians Working in Underserved Communities.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2015Article
- Evaluation of pediatricians' adherence to tobacco prevention, control, and treatment guidelines before and after an educational outreach program.Ochsner journal · 2013Article
- Promoting best practices for control of respiratory infections: collaboration between primary care and public health services.Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2006Article
- Interventions to improve the delivery of preventive services in primary care.American journal of public health · 1999Review
- Implementing guidelines and innovations in general practice: which interventions are effective?The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 1998Review
- Research and development in quality of care: establishing the research agenda.Quality in health care : QHC · 1996Article
- Implementing guidelines in general practice care.Quality in health care : QHC · 1992Review
- Facilitating prevention in primary care.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 1992Article
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectiveTo compare three approaches for marketing a quit smoking intervention kit to general practitioners.
designRandomised trial of (a) personal delivery and presentation by an educational facilitator with a follow up visit six weeks later; (b) delivery to the receptionist by a friendly volunteer courier with a follow up phone call six weeks later, or (c) postal delivery with a follow up letter six weeks later.
settingMelbourne, Australia. SUBJECTS: 264 randomly selected general practitioners. DATA COLLECTION: A research assistant visited each doctor four months after delivery and measured use of components of the kit. A questionnaire measuring perceptions of aspects of the kit and its delivery was completed by doctors. Costs of each approach were calculated.
resultsDoctors receiving the educational facilitator approach were significantly more likely than those receiving the other two approaches to have seen the kit, to rate the method of delivery as engendering motivation to try the kit, to have used one of the "intensive intervention" components from the kit, to report that they found the kit less complicated, and to report greater knowledge of how to use the kit. There were no significant differences in use of "minimal intervention" components of the kit, ratings of overall acceptability of delivery, perceptions of cultural and structural barriers to using the kit, and ratings of the overall acceptability of the kit. The cost of the educational facilitator approach ($A142/doctor) was 24 times that of the mailed approach. The volunteer courier approach ($A14) was twice the cost of the mailed approach.
conclusionEducational facilitators and volunteer couriers do not seem to be cost effective strategies for distributing smoking interventions.
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