Awareness of Evidence-Based Practices by Organizations in a Publicly Funded Smoking Cessation Network.

This research examines the awareness of evidence based practices by the public organizations that fund services in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC). NAQC is a large, publicly funded, goal-directed "whole network," spanning both Canada and the U.S.

Mapping tobacco quitlines in North America: signaling pathways to improve treatment.

Objectives: This study was designed to better understand how the network of quitlines in the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) interact and share new knowledge on quitline practices.

Methods: Network relationship data were collected from all 63 publicly funded quitlines in North America, including information sharing, partner trust, and reputation.

Results: There was a strong tendency for US and Canadian quitlines to seek information from other quitlines in the same country, with few seeking information from quitlines from the other country.

Network formation, governance, and evolution in public health: the North American Quitline Consortium case.

Background: Collaborative networks of health organizations have received a great deal of attention in recent years as a way of enhancing the flow of information and coordination of services. However, relatively little is known about how such networks are formed and evolve, especially outside a local, community-based setting. This article is an in-depth discussion of the evolution of the North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC).