Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Audit of Lung Cancer Screening Practice in Chest Physicians: An Update
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Trial Identification
Brief Title: Audit of Lung Cancer Screening Practice in Chest Physicians: An Update
Official Title: Lung Cancer Screening Practice in Chest Physicians
Study ID: NCT02944903
Conditions
Interventions
Study Description
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
Eligibility
Minimum Age:
Eligible Ages: CHILD, ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
Locations
AssiutU, Assiut, , Egypt
Contact Details
Name: Aliae Mohamed-Hussein, MD
Affiliation: Professor of Pulmonology- Faculty of Medicine-Assiut University
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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