Sentence examples for smoking documentation from inspiring English sources

The low pre-intervention rate of smoking documentation in that study is consistent with the rates we observed among internists (38%) and pediatricians (20%) in the present study.

The optimal time for maintaining good quality regarding spirometry and current smoking documentation seems to be between 1 and 1 1/2 hours per week.

These findings may suggest that pediatricians and internists focus their smoking documentation, and perhaps their smoking prevention and cessation efforts, on adolescents and young adults, target populations advocated by national guidelines [ 22, 23].

For example, clinical audit and standardized follow up improved smoking history documentation from 28%to88%8% in charts of patients with diabetes [ 26].

The time needed to reach the highest levels of spirometry and current smoking habit documentation was between 1 and 1 1/2 hours per week per 1000 patients registered at the centre.

Unfortunately, a study carried out by Ferketich et al. [ 21] found a low prevalence of ascertainment of smoking status, documentation of tobacco cessation assistance among tobacco users, and pharmacotherapy prescription.

In this study there were only four women who smoked; however, documentation of smoking habit was lacking for 67% of patients.

Aspirin (ASA) use and non-smoking status documentations have high compliance rates in Minnesota suggesting these two parameters add only a small portion to the overall optimal care metric [2008 Minnesota statewide average at goal: BP (56%), LDL (58%), HbA1c (58%) vs. Tobacco (83%), ASA (89%) for diabetes; and BP (58%), LDL (65%) vs. Tobacco (82%), ASA (93%) for IVD] [ 16].

For each antenatal contact with maternity services, data were collected from the notes on gestational age; health professional seen; documentation relating to smoking, current smoking, quit attempts, attendance at smoking cessation services.

Documentation of smoking status may be considered a more appropriate measure of medical record documentation quality for internal medicine than for pediatrics, since very young children (e.g., infants and toddlers) are not at risk for smoking cigarettes themselves.

Incentivised employment contracts, like the UK government UK General Practitioner (GP) primary care Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) contract, can increase documentation of smoking behaviour, advice and referral rates to stop smoking services.