Audit of Lung Cancer Screening Practice in Chest Physicians: An Update

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Cancer Screening

Treatments: Other: Audit

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02944903

AssiutU2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will conduct nationally representative survey in chest physicians in Egypt in 2016-2017. Self-administered questionnaire will be used to assess the physicians' knowledge of lung cancer screening guidelines, beliefs about the effectiveness of screening tests, and ordering of screening chest radiography, low-dose spiral computed tomography, or sputum cytology in the past 12 months.

Full description

Although current practice guidelines do not recommend screening asymptomatic patients for lung cancer, physicians may still order lung cancer screening tests. No recent national survey of health care professionals has focused on lung cancer screening

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physicians practising in Egypt (Chest physicians, general practitioners, and general internists)

Exclusion criteria

• Other nationalities
• Other specialities