Targetting special populations for tobacco intervention in managed care
 | Hospitalised smokers: characteristics, treatment, and transition to ambulatory care |
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Hospitalised smokers: characteristics, treatment, and transition to ambulatory care
Thomas D MacKenzie
University of
Colorado Health Sciences Center and Denver Health, 1100 Federal Blvd,
Denver, CO 80204, USA; tmackenz@dhha.org
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Introduction |
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Denver Health includes a central hospital with 18 000 admissions per year, and a large integrated network of 11 community health centres with 350 000 visits per year. Fifty per cent of patients are uninsured, 40% have incomes below the poverty level, and 70% are from a minority group.
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History of the tobacco control services |
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Denver Health has had outpatient cessation classes in the
community health centres since the early 1980s. In 1994, we convened a
tobacco control committee to address issues such as a tobacco free
campus, smoking status assessment as a fifth vital sign, and
publication of a tobacco control newsletter. In 1996, when nicotine gum
had already gone over the counter (OTC) and nicotine patches were about
to become OTC, our payers were deciding not to cover most OTC products.
Our challenge was to convince two groups
the hospital pharmacy
committee and the Medicaid managed care organisationthat nicotine
replacement therapy should be covered. Our approach was to
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