Improving Lung Cancer Screening at an Academic Medical Center
The US Preventive Services Task Force guidelines rely on an accurate history of patient's tobacco use to identify patients eligible for LCS. This QI project achieved success in improving the thoroughness of tobacco use history documentation and surpassed our target for increasing LCS by more than 10%.
Authors
- Dolores Güemes García
- Ramon S. Cancino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5758-5025)
- Cynthia Cantu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2952-1435)
- Arlene Reyes
- Rebecca Jones (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5646-3168)
Institutions
- Protestant Theological University (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal for Healthcare Quality
- Published
- 2024-08-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/jhq.0000000000000449
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- American Cancer Society