Best practices for comprehensive tobacco control programs: opportunities for managed care organisations

Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs, 2007 Summary of Panel Review

On December 6, 2006, a panel of experts in comprehensive state-wide tobacco control programs was convened in Atlanta, Georgia to review funding models and approaches to estimating statespecific budget recommendations in order to update CDC’s Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs (1999). This guidance document provided a blueprint for what program components should be impleme...

Managed Care Best Practices in Oncology Management

Resources on tobacco prevention and control available to managed care organisations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

In the United States, national health objectives are described in “Healthy People 2000: national health promotion and disease prevention objectives”. 2 These objectives are currently being updated for the year 2010, and include the following objectives related to tobacco use cessation: (1) increase to 75% the proportion of cigarette smokers who stopped smoking for at least one day during the pr...

Tobacco Control in State Comprehensive Cancer Control Plans: Opportunities for Decreasing Tobacco-Related Disease

INTRODUCTION Comprehensive cancer control plans published by state, tribal, and territorial health agencies present an excellent opportunity to help prevent tobacco-related and other cancers. In this analysis, we sought to estimate the extent to which tobacco control activities outlined in state comprehensive cancer control plans incorporated the tobacco control recommendations presented by the...

Best Practices for Robotic Surgery Programs

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Robotic surgical programs are increasing in number. Efficient methods by which to monitor and evaluate robotic surgery teams are needed. METHODS Best practices for an academic university medical center were created and instituted in 2009 and continue to the present. These practices have led to programmatic development that has resulted in a process that effectively m...