Using breath carbon monoxide to validate self-reported tobacco smoking in remote Australian Indigenous communities

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>This paper examines the specificity and sensitivity of a breath carbon monoxide (BCO) test and optimum BCO cutoff level for validating self-reported tobacco smoking in Indigenous Australians in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory (NT).&l...

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Main Authors: Ivers Rowena G, Robertson Jan A, Conigrave Katherine M, MacLaren David J, Eades Sandra, Clough Alan R
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-02-01
Series:Population Health Metrics
Online Access:http://www.pophealthmetrics.com/content/8/1/2