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.