Smoking status recording in GP electronic records: The unrealised potential

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 235-241

  Selak, Vanessa ^a   Wells, Susan ^a   Whittaker, Robyn ^b   Stewart, Alistair ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b WAITEMATA DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Data collection; Information systems; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GENDER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAORI; NEW ZEALAND; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING;

EID: 34047246981     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v14i4.635     Document Type: Article

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