Time to Treatment in Advanced Lung Cancer: A Quality Improvement Project Using Nurse Navigation and Liquid Biopsy
Using liquid biopsy, the time to treatment initiation was 21 days compared to 36 days with tissue biopsy only (p = 0.003). Postimplementation, median days to treatment decreased from 34 to 23.5 (p = 0.027), and treatment decisions made during the initial medical oncology visit increased from 38% to 55%.
Authors
- Rachel Coughlin
- Jennifer Polo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9282-7600)
- Mary Pat Lynch
Institutions
- Lynn University (US)
- The Institute of the Polish Language of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)
- McLaughlin Research Institute (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinical journal of oncology nursing
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1188/25.cjon.e28-e36
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00