Development of an algorithm for determining smoking status and behaviour over the life course from UK electronic primary care records

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• 作者：Mark D. Atkinson ; Jonathan I. Kennedy…
• 关键词：Smoking status ; Smoking cessation ; Data linkage ; SAIL databank
• 刊名：BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1150KB
• 刊物主题：Health Informatics; Information Systems and Communication Service; Management of Computing and Information Systems;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-6947
• 卷排序：17

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BackgroundPatients’ smoking status is routinely collected by General Practitioners (GP) in UK primary health care. There is an abundance of Read codes pertaining to smoking, including those relating to smoking cessation therapy, prescription, and administration codes, in addition to the more regularly employed smoking status codes. Large databases of primary care data are increasingly used for epidemiological analysis; smoking status is an important covariate in many such analyses. However, the variable definition is rarely documented in the literature.