Smoker, ex-smoker or non-smoker? The validity of routinely recorded smoking status in UK primary care: a cross-sectional study
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Smoker, ex-smoker or non-smoker? The validity of routinely recorded smoking status in UK primary care: a cross-sectional study
OBJECTIVE To investigate how smoking status is recorded in UK primary care; to evaluate whether appropriate multiple imputation (MI) of smoking status yields results consistent with health surveys. SETTING UK primary care and a population survey conducted in the community. PARTICIPANTS We identified 354 204 patients aged 16 or over in The Health Improvement Network (THIN) primary care datab...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Open
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2044-6055,2044-6055
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-004958