• Center on Health Equity and Access
  • Clinical
  • Health Care Cost
  • Health Care Delivery
  • Insurance
  • Policy
  • Technology
  • Value-Based Care

Insufficient Data, Disparities Plague Lung Cancer Risk Factor Documentation

News
Podcast

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the senior author of a study published in the September 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® on the importance of adequate and effective lung cancer risk factor documentation to determine a patient's eligibility for screening.

On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with the senior author of a study published in the September 2023 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® on the challenges and disparities in lung cancer risk factor documentation, as well as the potential for improvement.

Farhood Farjah, MD, MPH, FACS, is a thoracic surgeon at the University of Washington and a senior investigator of the study, “Factors Associated With Lung Cancer Risk Factor Documentation.”

The authors identified risk factors associated with the minimum necessary information to determine an individual's eligibility for lung cancer screening, as well as evaluate clinic-level variability in documentation.

Listen above or on one of these podcast services:

iTunes
TuneIn
Stitcher
Spotify


Related Videos
Landman family
Bevey Miner, executive vice president of health care strategy and policy, Consensus Cloud Solutions
Dr Jeffrey Sippel
dr kimberly maxfield
Amal Trivedi, MD
Related Content
© 2023 MJH Life Sciences
AJMC®
All rights reserved.