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

Assiut University75 enrolled

Overview

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.

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

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Lung Cancer Screening

Interventions

AuditOTHER

Questionnair

Eligibility

Sex: ALL

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Physicians practising in Egypt (Chest physicians, general practitioners, and general internists) Exclusion Criteria: * Other nationalities * Other specialities

Locations (1)

AssiutU

Asyut, Egypt

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Assessment of the use of guidelines of lung cancer screening

Time frame: one year

Secondary Outcomes

Self- administrated questionnaire

Time frame: 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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