Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2017
Interactive Voice Response Calls to Promote Smoking Cessation after Hospital Discharge: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials.
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Smoking Interventions for Hospital Patients: A Comparative Effectiveness Trial
Comparative Effectiveness of Post-Discharge Strategies for Hospitalized Smokers
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 32 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Telephone counselling for smoking cessation.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Patient navigation among recently hospitalized smokers to promote tobacco treatment: Results from a randomized exploratory pilot study.Addictive behaviors · 2021Trial
- Trial
- The Voice of Endo: Leveraging Speech for an Intelligent System That Can Forecast Illness Flare-ups.Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on human factors in computing systems. CHI Conference · 2025Article
- Using an Interactive Voice Response Survey to Assess Patient Satisfaction in Ethiopia: Development and Feasibility Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Attitudes About Artificially Intelligent Interactive Voice Response Systems Using Amazon Alexa in Cardiovascular Clinics: Insights from the VOICE-COVID-19 Study.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2023Article
- Reach and effectiveness of the NCI Cancer Moonshot-funded Cancer Center Cessation Initiative.Translational behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Feasibility of Incorporating Voice Technology and Virtual Assistants in Cardiovascular Care and Clinical Trials.Current cardiovascular risk reports · 2021Review
- Strategies for Referring Cancer Patients in a Smoking Cessation Program.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Observational
- Article
- Health System Implementation of a Tobacco Quitline eReferral.Applied clinical informatics · 2019Article
- Adaptation of a sustained care cessation intervention for smokers hospitalized for psychiatric disorders: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2019Article
- Leveraging technology to promote smoking cessation in urban and rural primary care medical offices.Preventive medicine · 2018Article
- A Face-Aging App for Smoking Cessation in a Waiting Room Setting: Pilot Study in an HIV Outpatient Clinic.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Article
- Capsule Commentary on Rigotti et al., Interactive Voice Response Calls to Promote Smoking Cessation after Hospital Discharge: Pooled Analysis of Two Randomized Clinical Trials.Journal of general internal medicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
backgroundHospitalization offers smokers an opportunity to quit smoking. Starting cessation treatment in hospital is effective, but sustaining treatment after discharge is a challenge. Automated telephone calls with interactive voice response (IVR) technology could support treatment continuance after discharge.
objectiveTo assess smokers' use of and satisfaction with an IVR-facilitated intervention and to test the relationship between intervention dose and smoking cessation.
designAnalysis of pooled quantitative and qualitative data from the intervention groups of two similar randomized controlled trials with 6-month follow-up.
participantsA total of 878 smokers admitted to three hospitals. All received cessation counseling in hospital and planned to stop smoking after discharge.
interventionAfter discharge, participants received free cessation medication and five automated IVR calls over 3 months. Calls delivered messages promoting smoking cessation and medication adherence, offered medication refills, and triaged smokers to additional telephone counseling. MAIN MEASURES: Number of IVR calls answered, patient satisfaction, biochemically validated tobacco abstinence 6 months after discharge. KEY
resultsParticipants answered a median of three of five IVR calls; 70% rated the calls as helpful, citing the social support, access to counseling and medication, and reminders to quit as positive factors. Older smokers (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.20-1.54 per decade) and smokers hospitalized for a smoking-related disease (OR 1.65, 95% CI 1.21-2.23) completed more calls. Smokers who completed more calls had higher quit rates at 6-month follow-up (OR 1.49, 95% CI 1.30-1.70, for each additional call) after multivariable adjustment for age, sex, education, discharge diagnosis, nicotine dependence, duration of medication use, and perceived importance of and confidence in quitting.
conclusionsAutomated IVR calls to support smoking cessation after hospital discharge were viewed favorably by patients. Higher IVR utilization was associated with higher odds of tobacco abstinence at 6-month follow-up. IVR technology offers health care systems a potentially scalable means of sustaining tobacco cessation interventions after hospital discharge. CLINICAL
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifiers NCT01177176, NCT01714323.
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