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. 2016 Mar 24;2016(3):CD008286. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008286.pub3

Perez‐Tortosa 2015.

Methods Setting: 43 primary care teams, Spain
Recruitment: diabetic patients during visits, or were selected by simple random sampling from a list of diabetic smokers. Not selected for motivation
Participants 948 (after exclusion of 129 without recorded baseline stage of change, not included in analyses) diabetic smokers (any smoking in past 7 days at recruitment) (Aged over 14 but predominantly adults). 24% F, av. age 60, av. cpd 15
Provider: primary care teams
Interventions 1. Usual care
2. Intensive, individualized intervention using motivational interview, therapies & medications based on stage of change. Up to 8 visits over 12 months for those in preparation/action stages. Median visits 4 (2‐6), contact time 100 mins
Outcomes Abstinence: continued abstinence at 1 year
Validation: CO level of less than 6 ppm
Notes New for 2015 update
No details of how many people used medications or what type, coded as moderate treatment take‐up
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Cluster randomized by primary care centre
Allocation concealment (selection bias) High risk ‘Patients were recruited as they visited the primary care team or alternatively were selected by simple random sampling from a list of diabetic smokers’. Patients recruited after centres allocated, and baseline differences, so judged at high risk for selection bias
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) 
 All outcomes High risk 129 without baseline stage of change data were excluded from analyses. Loss to follow‐up 24% (111) I, 23.4% (115) C, not included in reported analyses, reincluded in denominators for this MA.