Validating the use of veterans affairs tobacco health factors for assessing change in smoking status: accuracy, availability, and approach

BACKGROUND: Accurate smoking status is key for research purposes, but can be costly and difficult to measure. Within the Veteran’s Health Administration (VA), smoking status is recorded as part of routine care as “health factors” (HF)—fields that researchers can query through the electronic health r...

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Published in:BMC Med Res Methodol
Main Authors: Melzer, Anne C., Pinsker, Erika A., Clothier, Barbara, Noorbaloochi, Siamak, Burgess, Diana J., Danan, Elisheva R., Fu, Steven S.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5948734/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29751746
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-018-0501-2
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