PANEL SESSION III—MEASURING RESULTS: UNDERSTANDING AND IMPLEMENTING TOBACCO MEASURES An overview of tobacco measures
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Introduction In this panel session I will be making an introductory presentation, after which we will hear from Tim McAfee and Jodi Jessen. After all of the presenters have been heard from, we will address “questions for the future”. In my talk I would like to review: (a) the value of performance measurement and the diVerent ways in which performance measurement can serve our purposes; (b) the diVerent tobacco measures that have been developed or proposed, including those proposed by the Center for the Advancement of Health, those being used in the Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS), and those proposed by the Foundation for Accountability (FACCT); (c) results of the HEDIS tobacco measure in the 1996 reporting set; and (d) problems or potential problems with the HEDIS measures.
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