June 14 Webcast - Upcoming American Lung Association Webcast: When Quitting Adds Up: Tobacco Cessati
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
Tuesday, June 14th
| 2 pm ET
Quitting smoking is the best thing that a smoker can do to improve their
health. Quitting is difficult and patients often need help, advice, and support
from their provider(s). Unfortunately, the 2020 Surgeon General’s report on
Smoking Cessation found that, “four out of every nine adult cigarette smokers
who saw a health professional during the past year did not receive advice to
quit.” This is a missed opportunity for providers to facilitate the quitting
process. Especially given that smokers consistently cite a doctor’s advice to
quit as an important motivator to attempt quitting.
Quality measures are a tool to track provider behavior and patient outcomes.
When used for tobacco cessation, measures can encourage providers to help
smokers quit and connect patients to cessation resources. This webcast will
discuss what quality measures, how they are developed and maintained and how
they can be used to encourage tobacco cessation. The webinar will also
highlight how Missouri’s Medicaid program is using tobacco cessation quality
measures.
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