Research Article

Rationale and Design of a Randomized Controlled Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Medical Student Counseling for Hospitalized Patients Addicted to Tobacco (the MS-CHAT Trial)

Table 3

Planned descriptive outcomes.

Descriptive outcomes:
(i) Number of enrolled patients that receive inpatient counseling and at least 3 follow-up calls, calculated at 2 months from enrollment.
(ii) Number of patients who use any form of cessation pharmacotherapy within the first 2 months of enrollment.
(iii) Number of patients enrolled in the study that are available for follow-up at 6 months from enrollment.