Reliance on self-reporting underestimates pregnancy smoking rates in Scotland, with more than 2400 pregnant smokers estimated to be missed each year

Evidence-Based Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 94-95

  Tong, Van T ^a   Dietz, Patricia M ^a   England, Lucinda J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBON MONOXIDE; COTININE;

BLOOD EXAMINATION; BREATH ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; NOTE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL SCREENING; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SALIVA; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URINALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77953793662     PISSN: 13565524     EISSN: 14736810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ebm1053     Document Type: Note

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