Adherence to Posttreatment Surveillance Guidelines in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Several guidelines recommend posttreatment surveillance for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). However, studies evaluating surveillance patterns often cannot distinguish between imaging ordered for surveillance versus for symptoms suggestive of recurrence. Moreover, early recurrences and other competing events hamper efforts to determine true surveillance rates because of wide variability in reported guideline adherence in clinical practice. Leveraging comprehensive Veterans Health Administration data, we developed a novel competing risks framework to describe the patterns and predictors of NSCLC imaging surveillance.

Objective

This study aims to examine posttreatment surveillance to estimate the true surveillance rates and predictors of guideline-concordant care

SUBMITTER: Randle RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12488033 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature