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Implementation of Evidence-Based Tobacco Use Cessation Guidelines in Managed Care Organizations

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Annals of Behavioral Medicine

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Background: Although managed care organizations (MCOs) may be optimal settings for implementing tobacco use cessation clinical guidelines, such guidelines remain poorly implemented in many MCO settings.Purpose: We examined issues related to the implementation of guidelines in MCOs, to provide examples of studies that have addressed issues related to guideline implementation and to suggest ways behavioral medicine researchers can play a role in examining issues of how guidelines can be better implemented.Methods: Surveys of clinical guideline implementation, studies from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation addressing tobacco use cessation in a managed care database, selected to illustrate issues related to system-wide implementation.Results: Surveys show that effective tobacco use cessation interventions remain underutilized in MCOs. A few studies have evaluated and shown the benefit of insurance coverage for tobacco use and dependence treatments, clinician reimbursement and leadership incentives, practice feedback, and leveraging administrative data to create tobacco use tracking systems. The studies also point to the need for large-scale, multidisciplinary, methodologically rigorous studies that allow one to isolate the effects of promising strategies as well as to explore synergistic effects as different system changes are combined.Conclusions: Tobacco use cessation guidelines need to be better implemented in MCOs. Behavioral medicine research needs to move beyond treatment efficacy and effectiveness studies to focus on rigorous evaluations of these and other strategies to enhance guideline implementation and dissemination.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, 94305-5722, Stanford, CA

    C. Barr Taylor M.D.

  2. Department of Health Policy Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

    Susan J. Curry Ph.D.

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This research was supported by grants from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program (Taylor) and from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Taylor and Curry).

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Taylor, C.B., Curry, S.J. Implementation of Evidence-Based Tobacco Use Cessation Guidelines in Managed Care Organizations. ann. behav. med. 27, 13–21 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1207/s15324796abm2701_3

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