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Staff Training Resources

A. Training methodologies

Physician Training Matrix

Nurse Training Matrix

Non-Clinical Staff Training Matrix

B. Explanation of enforcement

Corrective Action Sample Matrix

C. in house/staff

PowerPoint for Pregnancy/OB audiences (note, PPT contain many of the same slides)

Fax Resources for the Georgia QuitLine program:

FaxBack Sheet

Fax Back Question and Answer

Reimbursement Resources
Medicare Learning Network (2/5/08): Smoking and Tobacco Use Cessation counseling Billing Code Update to Medicare

Medicare Preventive Services: Smoking and Tobacco-Use Cessation Counseling Services

Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy; A Healthcare Practitioner's Guide, 3d ed, PACT

General Resources
Healthcare Provider Reminder Systems, Provider Education and Patient Education

Working with Healthcare Delivery Systems to Improve the Delivery of Tobacco-Use Treatment to Patients; An Action Guide
CDC, Partner for Prevention, 2008
http://www.prevent.org/actionguides/Tobacco-UseTreatment.pdf

Investing in Health; Proven Health Promotion Practices for Workplaces
CDC, Partner for Prevention, 2008
http://www.prevent.org/images/stories/2008/investinginhealth_finalfinal.pdf

Tobacco and Core Measures: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update
Clinical Practice Update and Guideline

US Surgeon General, 2008

Healthy People 2010 on Tobacco

AHRQ - General References on Smoking Cessation and Providers
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/gdlnrefs1.htm

AHRQ References for Studies in Meta-Analyses

Helping Smokers Quit: A Guide for Clinicians
AHRQ, 2008

Specification Manual for Hospital Quality (Joint Commission): 
http://www.jointcommission.org/NR/rdonlyres/B37E04F7-C497-43F3-98E4-208F20339271/0/Release_Notes_2_3.pdf   (these come out periodically, there are both earlier and later ones).  If you search for tobacco you can find the references to where it must be on the H&P.

Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (http://www.aqaalliance.org/default.htm ) has a list of measures for physicians which includes tobacco use. Online link to measures:  http://www.aqaalliance.org/files/RevisedStarterSetApril2006.doc

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence—A Systems Approach
A Guide for Health Care Administrators, Insurers, Managed Care Organizations, and Purchasers AHRQ, 2000

Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence CME/CE
Medscape 2/29/08

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER REMINDER SYSTEMS, PROVIDER EDUCATION, AND PATIENT EDUCATION; Working with Healthcare Delivery Systems to Improve the Delivery of Tobacco-Use Treatment to Patients - An Action Guide
CDC Partnership for Prevention

Management of High-Risk Tobacco Users: Where Practice Guidelines and Clinical Judgment Meet CME/CE

Reasons for not Using Smoking Cessation Aids
Beatrice Gross; Leonie Brose; Anja Schumann; Sabina Ulbricht; Christian Meyer; Henry Völzke; Hans-Jürgen Rumpf; Ulrich John, Medscape, 6/17/08

Time Tool: Challenges of Treating Tobacco Use in High-Risk Populations CME/CE
Medscape, 12/28/07

TTAC/Emory Training Program online: Tobacco 101 Training Kit

Rx for Change - UCSF program free for registration

Georgia Provider Brochure

Smoking Among Medicaid Insured Mothers: What are the Neonatal Expenses?
E. Kathleen Adams , Ph.D. , M. Femi Ayadi , Ph.D. , Cathy L. Melvin , Ph.D. , M.P.H., and Carole C. Rivera HEALTH CARE FINANCING REVIEW/Winter 2004-2005/ Volume 26, Number 2 http://www.cms.hhs.gov/HealthCareFinancingReview/downloads/04-05Winterpg105.pdf

Specification Manual for Hospital Quality (Joint Commission):  http://www.jointcommission.org/NR/rdonlyres/B37E04F7-C497-43F3-98E4-208F20339271/0/Release_Notes_2_3.pdf   (these come out periodically, there are both earlier and later ones).  If you search for tobacco you can find the references to where it must be on the H&P.

Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance (http://www.aqaalliance.org/default.htm ) has a list of measures for physicians which includes tobacco use:  http://www.aqaalliance.org/files/RevisedStarterSetApril2006.doc

Free flyers for clinicians to use with prenatal smokers

Children - Asthma and Smoking references
2005 Georgia Youth Tobacco Survey Report

The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/report/
Asthma: p 310 – 375

Secondhand Smoke – EPA
http://www.epa.gov/asthma01/shs.html

Smoking and Asthma – Kids Health, Nemours Foundation http://kidshealth.org/parent/managing_asthma/triggers/smoking_asthma.html

Smoking and Asthma – WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/asthma/guide/smoking-and-asthma

For an Index with links to all materials, please click HERE.

Want to quit smoking ?
Call the Georgia Tobacco Quit Line: 1-877-270-STOP (7867)
1-877-2NO-FUME (266-3863) Spanish Language
TTY: 1-877-6534 (Hearing Impaired)

For a directory by county or zip code of available cessation services, click HERE.

For more information about the website, Contact Jan Potter at the Georgia Hospital Association.