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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-2-3
pubmed:abstractText
Few clinicians would doubt the importance of obtaining smoking histories from their patients. Nevertheless a clinicians' practices of documenting tobacco use in medical records varies substantially among individual providers and between different health care systems. To investigate the chart documentation of patient smoking among Indian Health Service clinicians, we reviewed 545 randomly selected patient records from 22 different Indian Health Service affiliated clinics. We focused on differences in charting of tobacco use by type of clinic and by geographic area within the Indian Health Service. Documentation varied by area, ranging from no documentation in the Albuquerque, Navajo, and Phoenix areas to 51% in the Oklahoma area. We conclude that clinicians practices of documentation of tobacco use vary widely and recommend that this practice be more widely encouraged at all affiliated Indian Health Service clinics.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Oct
pubmed:issn
0094-5145
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
389-96
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Child, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Documentation, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Indians, North American, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Medical Audit, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Medical History Taking, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Medical Records, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Residence Characteristics, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-Smoking, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-United States, pubmed-meshheading:8894964-United States Indian Health Service
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Clinical annotation of tobacco use in patient charts at Indian Health Service clinics and hospitals.
pubmed:affiliation
IHS Hdqtrs West, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Albuquerque, NM 87110, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article