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Table 3 Comparison of the pattern-matching algorithm classification to data review

From: Methods to improve the quality of smoking records in a primary care EMR database: exploring multiple imputation and pattern-matching algorithms

  

Data Review (reference standard)

  

Current

Never

Not Current

Past

Unknown

Conflicting Information

Not Smoking-related

Accuracy (%)

Pattern-Matching Algorithm

Current

23,858

5

243

298

1562

2688

28

83.2

Never

0

53,211

32

49

1

274

0

99.3

Not Current

0

0

2696

2

284

0

0

90.4

Past

2

1

1

21,691

2

6

0

99.9

Unknown

236

13

819

282

2479

20

67

63.3