ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2015
Data discipline in electronic medical records: Improving smoking status documentation with a standardized intake tool and process.
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- Factors influencing the development of primary care data collection projects from electronic health records: a systematic review of the literature.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2017Pooled it
- Reliability of self-reported smoking history and its implications for lung cancer screening.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the transformation in smoking status documentation after implementing a standardized intake tool as part of a primary care smoking cessation program.
designA before-and-after evaluation of smoking status documentation was conducted following implementation of a smoking assessment tool. To evaluate the effect of the intervention, the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network was used to extract aggregate smoking data on the study cohort.
settingAcademic primary care clinic in Kingston, Ont.
participantsA total of 7312 primary care patients.
interventionsAs the first phase in a primary care smoking cessation program, a standardized intake tool was developed as part of a vital signs screening process.
main outcome measuresDocumented smoking status of patients before implementation of the intake tool and documented smoking status of patients in the 6 months after its implementation.
resultsFollowing the implementation of the standardized intake tool, there was a 55% (P < .001; 95% CI 0.53 to 0.56) increase in the proportion of patients with a completed smoking status; more than 1100 former smokers were identified and the documented smoking rate in this cohort increased from 4.4% to 16.2%.
conclusionThis study shows that the implementation of an intake tool, integrated into existing clinical operational structures, is an effective way to standardize clinical documentation and promotes the optimization of electronic medical records.
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