Clinical Trial Research

Research on clinical trial research discussed by R. Borland and co-researchers

Published in Pharma Law Weekly, December 16th, 2008

According to recent research from Carlton, Australia, "GPs are an important source of smoking cessation advice. This research examined whether a model encouraging GP referral of patients who smoke to a specialist service would be acceptable and effective for increased smoking cessation when compared with a model of in-practice management."

"The study design was cluster randomized controlled trial. Practices were randomized to one of two interventions, at a rate of 1:2: (i) standard in-practice GP management or (ii) referral to a quitline service. The main outcome measures were sustained abstinence of >= 1 month duration at 3-month follow-up and >= 10 months...

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