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

BACKGROUND: Patients’ 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 regul...

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Autores principales: Atkinson, Mark D., Kennedy, Jonathan I., John, Ann, Lewis, Keir E., Lyons, Ronan A., Brophy, Sinead T.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5217540/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28056955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12911-016-0400-6