title: Developing and testing new smoking measures for the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester 01655, USA. lori.pbert@umassmed.edu
authors.forename: Lori
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pbert
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vuckovic
authors.forename: Judith K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Ockene
authors.forename: Jack F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Hollis
authors.forename: Karen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Riedlinger
mesh_terms: 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