Louise Walker*, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada Tamar Meyer, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada Virginia Chow, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada Mary Jean Costello, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada Peter Selby*, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, University of Toronto, OTRU, Toronto, Canada Track: Practice Presentation Topic: Wikis Presentation Type: Poster presentation Submission Type: Single Presentation Last modified: 2009-06-24

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Only about half of Canadian smokers reported receiving advice from their healthcare provider to quit or reduce the amount they smoke even though evidence shows that brief smoking cessation interventions effectively increase quit rates. The primary objective of the CAN-ADAPTT project is to facilitate knowledge exchange amongst those who are in a position to help smokers make changes to their behaviour (e.g., practitioners, healthcare/service providers) and tobacco control (TC) researchers in order to develop a set of smoking cessation guidelines that would identify and encourage the adoption of best practices in both clinical and community intervention settings. Using a practice based research network model, CAN-ADAPTT members will identify gaps in the current tobacco control practice guidelines and, in key areas, test a variety of cessation interventions at both the individual and population levels. CAN-ADAPTT's practice informed approach positions research to produce results that are clinically relevant, timely and readily useable by those who are in the position to help smokers. Utilizing a wiki platform to support discussion, collaboration and knowledge exchange, research will be translated into a dynamic set practice guidelines. The wiki guideline process is a continuous and prospective exercise where guidelines are updated as new evidence becomes available rather than one that occurs on arbitrarily pre-scheduled review dates. Select members of the network (i.e., Guideline Development Group) will make edits to the guideline content by incorporating new scientific evidence and expert opinion. Outdated or irrelevant recommendations can also be removed or modified to meet the needs of the given context. This iterative process will result in a set of national TC guidelines that will be adaptable as the smoking population changes and new knowledge is developed.