Trial reportTobacco control2009
Emergency department-initiated tobacco control: a randomised controlled trial in an inner city university hospital.
Trial report in Tobacco control, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Emergency Department-Initiated Tobacco Control: Update of a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Preventing chronic disease · 2017Pooled it
- Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department: Long-Term Follow-up of a Randomized Controlled Trial.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2026Trial
- Effectiveness and feasibility of smoking counselling: a randomized controlled trial in an Italian emergency department.European journal of public health · 2022Trial
- The acceptability of incorporating a youth smoking prevention intervention in the pediatric emergency department.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2014Trial
- Tobacco cessation among low-income smokers: motivational enhancement and nicotine patch treatment.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2014Trial
- Efficacy of an emergency department-based multicomponent intervention for smokers with substance use disorders.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2013Trial
- A randomized trial of a multicomponent cessation strategy for emergency department smokers.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2011Trial
- Smoking cessation in emergency departments: a reality check.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Review
- Attitudes and Behaviors Regarding Smoking in Friends and Relatives of Patients in Emergency Room: A New Frontier in the Fight against Tobacco.Addiction & health · 2022Article
- Smokeless Tobacco Cessation in an Emergency Room in Rural West Virginia.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Secondary analysis of an RCT on Emergency Department-Initiated Tobacco Control: Repeatedly assessed point-prevalence abstinence up to 12 months and extension of results through a 10-year follow-up.Tobacco induced diseases · 2019Article
- The emergency department action in smoking cessation (EDASC) trial: impact on cessation outcomes.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2013Article
- Predictors of Successful Telephone Contact After Emergency Department-based Recruitment into a Multicenter Smoking Cessation Cohort Study.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2013Article
- The Emergency Department Action in Smoking Cessation (EDASC) trial: impact on delivery of smoking cessation counseling.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2012Article
- Ethnoracial differences in emergency department patients' tobacco use.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2011Article
- Characteristics and predictors of readiness to quit among emergency medical patients presenting with respiratory symptoms.International journal of emergency medicine · 2011Article
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Abstract
objectivesEmergency department (ED) patients show high smoking rates. The effects of ED-initiated tobacco control (ETC) on 7-day abstinence at 12 months were investigated.
methodsA randomised controlled intention-to-treat trial (trials registry no.: ISRCTN41527831) was conducted with 1044 patients in an urban ED. ETC consisted of on-site counselling plus up to four telephone booster sessions. Controls received usual care. Analysis was by logistic regression.
resultsIn all, 630 (60.7%) participants were males, the median age was 30 years (range 18-81) and the median smoking intensity was 15 (range 1-60) cigarettes per day. Overall, 580 study participants (55.6%) were unmotivated, 331 (31.7%) were ambivalent and 133 (12.7%) were motivated smokers. ETC (median time 30 (range 1-99) min) was administered to 472 (91.7% out of 515) randomised study participants. At follow-up, 685 study participants (65.6% of 1044) could be contacted. In the ETC group, 73 out of 515 (14.2%) in the ETC group were abstinent, whereas 60 out of 529 (11.3%) controls were abstinent (OR adjusted for age and gender = 1.31 (95% CI 0.91 to 1.89, p = 0.15). Stratified for motivation to change behaviour, the adjusted ORs for ETC versus usual care were OR = 1.00 (95% CI 0.57 to 1.76) in unmotivated smokers, respectively OR = 1.37 (95% CI 0.73 to 2.58) in ambivalent smokers and OR = 2.19 (95% CI 0.98 to 4.89) in motivated smokers, p for trend = 0.29.
conclusionsETC, in the form of on-site counselling with up to four telephone booster sessions, showed no overall effect on tobacco abstinence after 12 months. A non-significant trend for a better performance of ETC in more motivated smokers was observed.
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