Provider Support and Patient Outreach in Lung Cancer Screening
This clinical trial tests how well providing education improves screening for lung cancer in patients with a history of smoking. Screenings may help doctors find lung cancer sooner when it may be easier to treat. Education and counseling may be an effective method to help providers and patients learn about lung cancer screening. Providing education and decision counseling to providers and patients may increase lung cancer screening.
• PRACTICE LEVEL:
• Primary care practice (family medicine, geriatrics, internal medicine) in one of the 4 participating health systems
• Practice using the main electronic medical record (EMR) of each system, in order to run appropriate patient recruitment reports
• Practice with at least 50% of practice providers (physicians and advanced care providers) consenting to participate
• PATIENT LEVEL:
• Have an office or telemedicine established patient visit scheduled with a primary care provider in one of the participating practices within next 14 to 25 days
• 50 to 77 years of age
• Have at least a 20-pack-year smoking history (based on self-report at baseline eligibility assessment)
• Currently smoke or have quit smoking within the past 15 years (based on self-report at baseline eligibility assessment)
• Able to communicate in English or Spanish (determined at baseline eligibility assessment)