Smoking Status

This value set indicates the current smoking status of a patient. The vocabulary selected for this value set is the best approximation of the statuses in Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 1. The smoking status value set includes a special code to communicate if the smoking status is unknown

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This value set includes codes from the following code systems:

  • Include these codes as defined in http://snomed.info/sct
    CodeDisplay
    449868002Smokes tobacco daily (finding)
    428041000124106Occasional tobacco smoker (finding)
    8517006Ex-smoker (finding)
    266919005Never smoked tobacco (finding)
    77176002Smoker (finding)
    266927001Tobacco smoking consumption unknown (finding)
    428071000124103Heavy tobacco smoker (finding)
    428061000124105Light tobacco smoker (finding)