160 Updating primary care smoking records by text message in preparation for lung cancer screening in Wales

Targeted lung cancer screening requires identification of current and ex-smokers ( “ever-smokers”). Primary care records can be used to identify ever-smokers but the completeness and accuracy of this data is variable, and updating records can be resource-intense. We assessed the completeness of smoking data (recorded as “tobacco codes”) in primary care records in Wales and developed a toolkit to update missing smoking status data using an automated text message system.
Source: Lung Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: Screening Source Type: research