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ArticleHealthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands)2021

Improving smoking history documentation in the electronic health record for lung cancer risk assessment and screening in primary care: A case study.

Elizabeth Peterson, Kathryn Harris, Farhood Farjah, Nkem Akinsoto, Leah M Marcotte

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Article in Healthcare (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Improving lung cancer screening diagnostic efficiency.Current opinion in pulmonary medicine · 2026
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  7. Factors associated with lung cancer risk factor documentation.The American journal of managed care · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Elizabeth PetersonUW Medicine Valley Medical Center, Renton, WA, USA. Electronic address: Elizabeth_Peterson@valleymed.org.
Kathryn HarrisDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Farhood FarjahDepartment of Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Nkem AkinsotoPrimary Care and Population Health, UW Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Leah M MarcotteDepartment of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.

Funding

AHRQ HHS K12 HS026369
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Improving risk factor documentation in the electronic health record (EHR) is important in order to determine patient eligibility for lung cancer screening. System-level prioritization combined with a clinic-level initiative can improve risk factor documentation rates. Multi-faceted interventions that include training, process improvement, data management, and continuous performance feedback are effective and can be integrated into existing workflows.

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Electronic Health RecordsLung NeoplasmsDocumentationEarly Detection of CancerHumansPrimary Health CareRisk AssessmentSmokingHealth ITLung cancer screeningSmoking risk factors

Identifiers

PMID34450358
PMCPMC9553290

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