A Validated Register-Based Algorithm to Identify Patients Diagnosed with Recurrence of Surgically Treated Stage I Lung Cancer in Denmark.
Linda Aagaard RasmussenNiels Lyhne ChristensenAnne Winther-LarsenSusanne Oksbjerg DaltonLine Flytkjaer VirgilsenHenry JensenPeter VedstedPublished in: Clinical epidemiology (2023)
The proposed algorithm demonstrated good performance in a population with 33% recurrences over a median of 29 months. It can be used to identify patients diagnosed with recurrent lung cancer, and it may be a valuable tool for future research in this field. However, a lower positive predictive value is seen when applying the algorithm in populations with low recurrence rates.