Trial reportNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2015
Expanding Cessation Pharmacotherapy Via Videoconference Educational Outreach to Prescribers.
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- Implementation strategies to increase tobacco treatment in mental health settings: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying behaviour change techniques in 287 randomized controlled trials of audit and feedback interventions targeting practice change among healthcare professionals.Implementation science : IS · 2023Pooled it
- Digital Education for Health Professions on Smoking Cessation Management: Systematic Review by the Digital Health Education Collaboration.Journal of medical Internet research · 2019Pooled it
- Effectiveness of educational outreach visits compared with usual guideline dissemination to improve family physician prescribing-an 18-month open cluster-randomized trial.Implementation science : IS · 2018Trial
- Outcomes of a randomized trial evaluating two approaches for promoting pharmacy-based referrals to the tobacco quitline.Journal of the American Pharmacists Association : JAPhATrial
- Utilisation of a cocreation methodology to develop claims-based indicators for feedback on implementation of comparative effectiveness research results into practice.BMJ open quality · 2025Article
- Cigarette Smoking and Quitting-Related Factors Among US Adult Health Center Patients with Serious Mental Illness.Journal of general internal medicine · 2019Article
- Use of Academic Detailing With Audit and Feedback to Improve Antipsychotic Pharmacotherapy.Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) · 2018Article
- Interventions to Reduce Tobacco-Related Health Disparities.Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco · 2015Article
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Abstract
introductionSmoking cessation pharmacotherapy is underutilized by people with mental illnesses, who smoke at high rates and die prematurely of smoking-related diseases. Educational outreach can improve prescribing, but distances impede widespread use of this practice. Little research has assessed whether videoconference can effectively deliver educational outreach. We conducted a randomized, controlled trial of in-person versus videoconference educational outreach for smoking cessation pharmacotherapy across a state mental health system.
methodsWe randomly assigned clinics to receive in-person or videoconference educational outreach with audit and feedback for cessation pharmacotherapy. Prescribers completed brief questionnaires before and after the intervention. With segmented regression analysis of interrupted time series, we evaluated prescribing trends in Medicaid pharmacy claims for nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and varenicline, with interaction terms for the effect of intervention type (in-person vs. videoconference).
resultsWith interaction terms in the model, filled NRT prescriptions increased after the intervention compared to before (p < .01). The pattern of fills after the intervention were different at centers receiving in-person compared to videoconference educational outreach (p < .02) without clearly favoring one over the other. Additionally, filled varenicline prescriptions increased after the intervention compared to before (p = .04), but type of intervention delivery did not influence varenicline fills. Prescriber satisfaction with the educational intervention was high and prescriber attitudes became more positive in both groups.
conclusionThis study suggests that single session educational outreach with audit and feedback can increase cessation pharmacotherapy utilization, and that videoconference delivery could be an effective, scalable approach to improve workforce capacity in systems serving mentally ill smokers.
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