Agency for Health Care Policy and Research guideline recommendations for healthcare administrators, purchasers and insurers
| • Implement a tobacco user identification system in every clinic. |
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| • Provide education, resources, and feedback to promote provider intervention. |
| • Dedicate staff to provide smoking cessation treatment identified as effective in the guideline, and assess the delivery of this treatment in staff performance evaluations. |
| • Promote hospital policies that support and provide smoking cessation services. |
| • Include smoking cessation treatment identified as effective in the guideline as paid services for all subscribers of health insurance packages. |
| • Reimburse fee-for-service clinicians for delivery of effective smoking cessation treatments, and include these interventions among the defined duties of salaried clinicians. |