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

NCT ID: NCT02944903

Last Updated: 2017-06-14

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 75 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2016-10-31
• Study Completion Date: 2017-06-30

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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

Conditions

Lung Cancer Screening

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: OTHER
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Interventions

Audit

Questionnair

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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

Exclusion Criteria

• Other nationalities
• Other specialities

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Assiut University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Aliae AR Mohamed Hussein

Prof. Dr. Aliae AR Mohamed-Hussein, Professor of Pulmonology

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Aliae Mohamed-Hussein, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Professor of Pulmonology- Faculty of Medicine-Assiut University

Locations

AssiutU

Asyut, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Other Identifiers

AssiutU2

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id