Adherence to Annual Lung Cancer Screening and Rates of Cancer Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Adherence to annual lung cancer screening (LCS) is a proposed quality metric for LCS programs, but data linking annual adherence to lung cancer outcomes are lacking.

Objective

To investigate annual LCS adherence rates across 2 subsequent LCS rounds among adults undergoing baseline LCS and examine the association of adherence with lung cancer diagnosis rates.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study included adults aged 55 to 75 years who formerly or currently smoked and underwent baseline LCS between January 1, 2015, and December 31, 2018, across 5 US health care systems in the Population-Based Research to Optimize the Screening Process-Lung Consortium. Participants with missing Lung Computed Tomography Screening Reporting & Data Sy

SUBMITTER: Kim RY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11920840 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature