Clinical trial · Interventional
Nicotine Replacement Therapy Prescribing and Lung Cancer Screening in Hospitalized Patients
Increasing Nicotine Replacement Therapy Prescribing and Lung Cancer Screening in Hospitalized Patients Using an Innovative Non-Interruptive Alert Within the Electronic Health Record Provider Note
NCT07164404CI-TRIAL-00110907active not recruitingN/AClinicalTrials.gov clinicaltrialsProvenance
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Investigators are evaluating an EHR-based, non-interruptive alert to increase NRT prescribing in the hospital and at discharge for hospitalized patients. Investigators will investigate two randomized groups of resident physicians to evaluate their prescribing behaviors when the tool is introduced.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tobacco Use Disorder | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| EHR alert | Other | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- EHR alert
- description
- Group will have access to the EHR embedded alert into the admission note template, where it automatically inserts smoking history, prompts NRT prescribing in the hospital, and offers referral to outpatient follow up.
- interventionNames
- Other: EHR alert
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Control
- description
- Routine care, no access to the EHR embedded alert
Primary outcomes (3)
- measure
- Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) prescribing rates during hospitalization
- timeFrame
- During hospitalization, assessed from admission to discharge (average of 3-7 days)
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Patients Inclusion Criteria: * Hospitalized patients admitted to a General Medicine Service at MUSC Charleston * Identified as actively smoking tobacco via nursing admission screening * Admitted by a resident physician participating in the study (as indicated by the H\&P note) Exclusion Criteria: • None Resident Physicians: Inclusion Criteria: • Internal medicine resident physicians rotating on the hospitalist service at MUSC Health Charleston Exclusion Criteria: • None
References
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