Description of participating hospitals during patient recruitment periods
| Control group recruitment | Intervention group recruitment | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital | Type | Units | Start date | Recruiting length (months) | Total patients screened | Eligible smokers screened | Start date | Recruiting length (months) | Total patients screened | Eligible smokers screened |
| 1 | M, TC, T | 3/6 | January/2005 | 3 | 204 | 47 | July/2006 | 6 | 770 | 177 |
| 2 | S, G | 1/1 | January/2006 | 2 | 83 | 19 | February/2007 | 2 | 60 | 9 |
| 3 | L, TC, T | 2/14 | January/2006 | 2 | 332 | 61 | March/2007 | 0.8 | 149 | 31 |
| 4 | S, G | 2/4 | January/2006 | 5 | 164 | 41 | May/2007 | 1 | 147 | 40 |
| 5 | S, G | 5/5 | February/2006 | 1 | 182 | 46 | October/2007 | 2 | 161 | 37 |
| 6 | L, TC, T | 5/15 | March/2006 | 2 | 481 | 114 | May/2007 | 2 | 352 | 75 |
| 7 | L, TC, T | 4/15 | May/2006 | 0.3 | 504 | 98 | September/2008 | 0.8 | 852 | 129 |
| 8 | S, G | 1/1 | June/2006 | 2 | 57 | 9 | October/2007 | 8 | 122 | 28 |
| 9 | M, G | 6/6 | June/2006 | 3 | 726 | 128 | February/2007 | 1 | 856 | 129 |
| 10 | S, G | 2/3 | June/2006 | 1 | 121 | 20 | May/2007 | 2 | 191 | 44 |
| 11 | S, G | 1/1 | August/2006 | 1 | 104 | 29 | November/2007 | 1 | 102 | 29 |
| 12 | S, G | 1/1 | March/2007 | 1 | 26 | 4 | April/2008 | 6 | 150 | 18 |
| 13 | L, TC, T | 5/14 | March/2007 | 2 | 267 | 62 | January/2008 | 4 | 357 | 82 |
| 14 | M, G | 3/4 | September/2007 | 2 | 317 | 63 | May/2009 | 1 | 348 | 80 |
| 3568 | 741 | 4617 | 908 | |||||||
Units, Number of participating hospital units/number of total possible hospital units; Recruitment length, number of months during which the consecutive screening of patients took place.
G, general; L, large; M, medium; S, small; T, teaching; TC, tertiary care.