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Lisa A Martin¹, Kimberley J Dilley, Adolfo J Ariza

¹Department of Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA. limartin@lumc.edu

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Most children living with smokers lack accurate documentation of household smoking status in medical records. Improved documentation systems are needed for effective tobacco-related surveillance and counseling.

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Area of Science:

Pediatrics
Public Health
Health Informatics

Background:

Accurate documentation of household smoking status is crucial for pediatric health surveillance and intervention.
Existing medical record systems may not adequately capture tobacco-related information for children.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the completeness and accuracy of tobacco-related documentation in children's medical records.
To assess the relationship between documentation and visit type, household smoking status, and charting prompts.

Main Methods:

Cross-sectional survey of 4216 parents across 13 primary care practices.
Review of medical records for 2085 children from 1149 families.
Analysis of documentation rates for family and prenatal tobacco use, considering visit type and charting prompts.

Main Results:

Only 30.6% of children had family tobacco use documented at initial visits and 15.4% had prenatal tobacco use documented.
Health supervision visits had higher tobacco-related notation rates (39.3%) compared to other visits (9.6%).
Charting prompts significantly improved the documentation of family and prenatal tobacco use history.

Conclusions:

Most children residing with smokers lacked accurate documentation of household smoking status.
Current documentation practices are insufficient for effective tobacco-related surveillance and counseling in pediatric care.
Enhanced documentation systems are recommended to improve identification and management of tobacco exposure in children.