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Can GPs use smoking status data in electronic health records to recruit patients for lung cancer screening? A descriptive study using the MedicineInsight database

2026-02-24

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: In 2025, lung cancer screening commenced in Australia, with general practitioners (GPs) being patients’ first point of contact to access the program. However, there is a gap in understanding how GPs can effectively identify screening-eligible individuals. Therefore, our study examined how smoking status data are recorded in GPs’ electronic health records (EHRs), describing...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8835194/v1

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