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. 2021 Sep 6;2021(9):CD011556. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD011556.pub2

Lasser 2017.

Study characteristics
Methods Design: Randomized controlled trial
Setting: Boston Medical Center’s adult primary care, USA
Recruitment: Calls and letters to potentially eligible identified from electronic medical record, and recruited from waiting rooms
Participants 352 participants, av.age 50, 54% F, 15 cpd
Interventions Intervention: participants received a low literacy smoking cessation brochure and a list of hospital and community resources for smoking cessation. In addition, they received up to 4 hours of patient navigation delivered over 6 months, and financial incentives for biochemically‐confirmed smoking cessation at 6 and 12 months following enrolment
Control: participants received assessment of their smoking status, brief cessation counseling, a low‐literacy smoking cessation brochure and a list of hospital and community resources for smoking cessation
Outcomes 7‐day PPA at 12m
Validation: Salivary cotinine > 10 ng/mL or urinary anabasine > 3 ng/mL
Funding Source This study was supported by American Cancer Society (grant No. 125785‐RSG‐14‐034‐01CPPB)
Author's declarations of interest QUOTE: "Dr Quintiliani was a consultant on a research grant to Partners HealthCare Inc. unrelated to the work presented in this article. No other conflicts are reported"
Notes Strategy: Adjunctive counseling + Financial incentive
Level: Patient
Comparison type: Multicomponent vs. standard care
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Sequence Generation Low risk Random‐number generator
Allocation concealment Low risk Sealed envelopes
Blinding of outcome assessors
All outcomes Low risk Smoking status biochemically validated
Incomplete outcome data
All outcomes Low risk The overall loss to follow‐up was 28.7% (n = 101/352); 27.1% (n = 48/177) in the intervention group and 30.3% (n = 53/175) in the control group were lost to follow‐up at 12 months