Comparing Prognostic Tools for Cancer Screening: Considerations for Clinical Practice and Performance Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To compare the agreement and rates of cancer screening using four prognostic tools that require different types of clinical information.

Design

Observational retrospective cohort study.

Setting

2009 and 2010 waves of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey.

Participants

Adults aged 66-90 with survey and claims data (N = 9,469).

Measurements

Agreement between four indices predicting short-term (4-5 years) and long-term (9-10 years) survival; self-reported breast and prostate cancer screening.

Results

Agreement between the four prognostic tools was high. Pearson correlation coefficients ranged from 0.63 to 0.90 for short-term survival and 0.68 to 0.94 for long-term survival. When defining limited short-term life expectancy as less than 25

SUBMITTER: Pollack CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4882245 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature