Evaluation

1. Form a multinational consortium that has an evaluation subcommittee, which includes researchers, service providers, and funders to establish priorities on how to collect, handle, and analyze data, and to develop a minimum set of indicators to assess:
• Outcomes
• Measures
• Quality
• Service Delivery
• Baseline Information
• Reach
• Cost
• Research Priorities
• Funding

2. Obtain commitment of quitlines to perform ethical and appropriate evaluation.
All quitlines are expected to conduct evaluations on all aspects of services and activities.
3. What makes a quality quitline?
What are minimum standards?
Partnership of service providers, funders, and research community to ensure better practices for all quitlines.

4. Create a national laboratory across a number of quitlines to generate data.
Research is a key priority particularly emphasizing collaboration between service providers and researchers to identify topics and.issues to address.

Assess how quitline information can be incorporated into existing surveys.
5. How do quitlines fit into the larger context of national tobacco cessation goals and comprehensive tobacco control?