Clinical Efficacy of Telemedicine Compared to Face-to-Face Clinic Visits for Smoking Cessation: Multicenter Open-Label Randomized Controlled Noninferiority Trial

Conclusions: The application of telemedicine using internet-based video counseling as a smoking cessation program had a similar CAR from weeks 9 to 12 as that of the standard face-to-face clinical visit program. The efficacy of the telemedicine-based smoking cessation program was not inferior to that of the standard visit–based smoking cessation program. Trial Registration: University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry: UMIN000031620; https://upload.umin.ac.jp/cgi-open-bin/ctr_e/ctr_view.cgi?recptno=R000035975.

Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Akihiro Nomura Tomoyuki Tanigawa Tomoyasu Muto Takafumi Oga Yasushi Fukushima Arihiro Kiyosue Masaki Miyazaki Eisuke Hida Kohta Satake Source Type: research