Age, comorbidity, life expectancy, and pulmonary nodule follow-up in older veterans.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary nodule guidelines do not indicate how to individualize follow-up according to comorbidity or life expectancy.

Objectives

To characterize comorbidity and life expectancy in older veterans with incidental, symptom-detected, or screen-detected nodules in 2008-09 compared to 2013-14. To determine the impact of these patient factors on four-year nodule follow-up among the 2008-09 subgroup.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Urban Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Participants

243 veterans age ≥65 with newly diagnosed pulmonary nodules in 2008-09 (followed for four years through 2012 or 2013) and 446 older veterans diagnosed in 2013-14.

Measurements

The primary outcome was receipt of any follow-up nodule imaging and/or biopsy

SUBMITTER: Wong ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6059441 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature