Evaluation of smoking status identification using electronic health records and open-text information in a large mental health case register.

BACKGROUND:High smoking prevalence is a major public health concern for people with mental disorders. Improved monitoring could be facilitated through electronic health record (EHR) databases. We evaluated whether EHR information held in structured fields might be usefully supplemented by open-text...

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Main Authors: Chia-Yi Wu, Chin-Kuo Chang, Debbie Robson, Richard Jackson, Shaw-Ji Chen, Richard D Hayes, Robert Stewart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3772070?pdf=render