Selection of eligible participants for screening for lung cancer using primary care data.
Emma L O'DowdKevin Ten HaafJaspreet KaurStephen W DuffyWilliam HamiltonRichard B HubbardJohn K FieldMatthew Ej CallisterSamuel M JanesHarry J de KoningJanette RawlinsonDavid R BaldwinPublished in: Thorax (2021)
Risk-prediction models showed only moderate discrimination when applied to routinely collected primary care data, which may be explained by quality and completeness of data. However, they may substantially reduce the number of people for initial evaluation of screening eligibility, at the cost of missing some lung cancers. Further work is needed to establish whether newer models have improved performance in primary care data.