Affiliation:
1. Division of Prevention and Rehabilitation, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada
2. Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
3. Champlain Local Health Integration Network, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Abstract
Abstract
Introduction
This study evaluated whether introducing performance obligations (a policy intervention) to service agreements between hospitals (n = 15) and their local health authority: (1) improved provision of an evidence-based tobacco cessation intervention (the “Ottawa Model” for Smoking Cessation) and (2) changed the quality of the cessation intervention being delivered.
Methods
Interrupted time series analysis was used to evaluate the change in the proportion of smoker patients provided the Ottawa Model 3 years before and 3 years after introducing the performance obligations. Changes in secondary outcomes related to program quality were described using mean differences, risk differences, and risk ratios, as appropriate.
Results
The proportion and number of patients provided the Ottawa Model doubled in the 3-year period following introduction of the new policy—from 3453 patients (33.7%) in the year before to 6840 patients (62.8%) in the final assessment year. This resulted in a signification slope change (+9.2%; 95% confidence interval [CI] 4.5%, 13.9%; p = .01) between the pre- and post-obligation assessment periods, signifying the policy had a positive impact on performance. Quality and effectiveness of the in-hospital intervention remained steady.
Conclusions
Implementation of performance obligations by a healthcare funder increased delivery of an evidence-based smoking cessation intervention across multiple hospitals. Given the known health and economic impacts of smoking cessation interventions, health authorities and hospitals should consider pairing adoption of systematic interventions, like the Ottawa Model, with policy to enhance reach and impact.
Implications
• The hospital-based Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC) intervention has been shown to increase smoking abstinence, while reducing mortality and healthcare utilization.
• The uptake of systematic, evidence-based interventions, like the OMSC, by hospitals has been relatively low despite the known positive impacts.
• The introduction of smoking cessation performance obligations by a healthcare funder resulted in more patients receiving an OMSC intervention while in hospital, with no corresponding change in intervention quality or effectiveness.
• Healthcare funders and hospitals should consider pairing the adoption of effective, systematic interventions, like the OMSC, with policy to enhance reach and impact.
Funder
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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