Is smoking status routinely recorded when patients register with a new GP?

Family Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 673-675

  Szatkowski, Lisa ^a   Lewis, Sarah ^a   McNeill, Ann ^a   Coleman, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer systems; Family practice; Medical records; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; REGISTER; SMOKING;

ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SMOKING;

EID: 78649366441     PISSN: 02632136     EISSN: 14602229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/fampra/cmq046     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Academic and Public Health Consortium. Rapid Review of Brief Interventions and Referral for Smoking Cessation. London: NICE, 2005.
2. Office for National Statistics. General Household Survey: GHS 2007 [Online]. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/GHS07/GeneralHouseholdSurvey2007.pdf (accessed on 22 September 2009).
3. World Health Organization. WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic: The MPOWER Package. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2008.
4. Fiore MC, Jaén CR, Baker TB et al. Clinical Practice Guideline. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: 2008 Update. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2008.
5. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. Brief Interventions and Referral for Smoking Cessation in Primary Care and Other Settings. NICE Public Health Intervention Guidance 1. London: NICE, 2006.
6. NHS Information Centre. National Quality and Outcomes Frame-work Statistics for England 2006/07. London: The Information Centre, 2007.
7. Department of Health. New GMS Contract QOF Implementation Dataset and Business Rules: Smoking Indicator Set. London: Department of Health, 2008.
8. McEwen A, West R, Owen L, Raw M. General practitioners' views on and referral to NHS smoking cessation services. Public Health 2005; 119: 262-8.
9. Maguire A, Blak BT, Thompson ME. The importance of defining periods of complete mortality reporting for research using automated data from primary care. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 2009; 18: 76-83.
10. Bourke A, Dattani H, Robinson M. Feasibility study and methodology to create a quality-evaluated database of primary care data. Inform Prim Care 2004; 12: 171-7.