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European Heart Journal 1999 20(22):1630-1637; doi:10.1053/euhj.1999.1635
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Registration and management of smoking behaviour in patients with coronary heart disease. The EUROASPIRE survey

T.F.M. Van Berkela, H. Boersmaa, D. De Baquerb, J.W. Deckersa and D. Woodc

a Department of Cardiology, Heartcentre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
b Department of Public Health, University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
c Imperial College School of Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, U.K.

revised April 4, 1999; accepted April 7, 1999

Abstract

Aims To establish to what extent smoking status and its management is recorded in coronary patients' medical records, and to investigate their motivation to change smoking behaviour.

Methods In EUROASPIRE, a survey on secondary prevention in 21 hospitals in the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, data were collected from records of 4863 consecutive patients 70 years of age, with previous (>6 months) admission for coronary bypass operation, angioplasty, myocardial infarction or ischaemia. Of these, 3569 patients were interviewed 1·6 years following their index hospitalization.

Results Of the 82% of patients whose pre-hospitalization smoking behaviour was known, 34% were smokers. Documentation was significantly better in younger patients, in males and patients requiring angioplasty or bypass operation. In only 35% of 1364 smokers was the smoking habit recorded again after discharge from hospital At the time of the interview, 554 of the interviewed patients were still smoking. In over 90% of the smokers, advice to quit smoking was reported at interview. A positive relationship was found between receiving advice and seeking help to stop smoking, between receiving advice to stop smoking and attempting to stop, as well as between seeking help and attempting to stop.

Conclusion In almost 20% of coronary patients, smoking habits are not documented in medical records, and in only 35% of the smoking patients is smoking status documented at the follow-up. After a cardiac event requiring hospitalization as many as 50% of patients continue their smoking habit and so there is further potential to reduce the risk of recurrent coronary disease. Advice to stop smoking motivates patients to seek help and to attempt to stop smoking. Physicians repeated advice to stop smoking is important and smoking status should always be documented at follow-up.

Key Words: Coronary heart disease, secondary prevention, smoking, registration

Correspondence: T. F. M. van Berkel, University Hospital Rotterdam, Department of Cardiology, room Bd 381a, Dr. Molewaterplein 40, 3015 GD Rotterdam, The Netherlands.


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