Increasing Tobacco Use Cessation: Provider Assessment & Feedback

Task Force Finding*

Feedback interventions use assessment of provider performance in delivering tobacco use cessation information or advice to patients to inform and motivate providers. Retrospective assessments are conducted through chart reviews or computerized medical records. Assessment and feedback interventions can also involve other activities, such as provider education, and these combinations are considered in this section.

After a review of the scientific evidence, the Task Force found insufficient evidence to assess the effectiveness of provider feedback when used alone or in combination with other interventions. The Task Force considered the evidence insufficient on the basis of (1) the small number of studies (n =3), and (2) an insufficient number of studies providing measurements of changes in provider advice to quit or measurements of changes in patient tobacco use cessation.

*From the following publication:

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Recommendations regarding interventions to reduce tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke. [PDF - 1.46KB] Am J Prev Med 2001;20(2S):10-5.

Review completed: February 2000

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