Developing and testing new smoking measures for the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set.
OBJECTIVE
To develop and test items for the Health Plan Employee Data and Information Set (HEDIS) that assess delivery of the full range of provider-delivered tobacco interventions.


METHODS
The authors identified potential items via literature review; items were reviewed by national experts. Face validity of candidate items was tested in focus groups. The final survey was sent to a random sample of 1711 adult primary care patients; the re-test survey was sent to self-identified smokers.


RESULTS
The process identified reliable items to capture provider assessment of motivation and provision of assistance and follow-up.


CONCLUSIONS
One can reliably assess patient self-report of provider delivery of the full range of brief tobacco interventions. Such assessment and feedback to health plans and providers may increase use of evidence-based brief interventions.
Pbert
Lori
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Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA. lori.pbert@umassmed.edu
Vuckovic
Nancy
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Ockene
Judith K
JK
Hollis
Jack F
JF
Riedlinger
Karen
K
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003376:Counseling / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000592:standards*; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020340:Tobacco Use Cessation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States