• J Emerg Med · Aug 2024

    Randomized Controlled Trial

    Increasing Uptake of Lung Cancer Screening Among Emergency Department Patients: A Pilot Study.

    • David H Adler, Nancy Wood, Kevin Fiscella, M Patricia Rivera, Brenda Hernandez-Romero, Sydney Chamberlin, and Beau Abar.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. Electronic address: david_adler@urmc.rochester.edu.
    • J Emerg Med. 2024 Aug 1; 67 (2): e164e176e164-e176.

    BackgroundLung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Lung cancer screening (LCS) decreases lung cancer mortality. Emergency department (ED) patients are at disproportionately high risk for lung cancer. The ED, therefore, is an optimal environment for interventions to promote LCS.ObjectivesDemonstrate the operational feasibility of identifying ED patients in need of LCS, referring them to LCS services, deploying a text message intervention to promote LCS, and conducting follow-up to determine LCS uptake.MethodsWe conducted a randomized clinical trial to determine the feasibility and provide estimates of the preliminary efficacies of 1) basic referral for LCS and 2) basic referral plus a text messaging intervention, grounded in behavioral change theory, to promote uptake of LCS among ED patients. Participants aged 50 to 80, identified as eligible for LCS, were randomized to study arms and followed up at 150 days to assess interval LCS uptake (primary outcome), barriers to screening, and perceptions of the study interventions.ResultsA total of 303 patients were surveyed, with 198 identified as eligible for LCS and subsequently randomized. Results indicated that 24% of participants with follow-up data received LCS (11% of the total randomized sample). Rates of screening at follow-up were similar across study arms. The intervention significantly improved normative perceptions of LCS (p = 0.015; Cohen's d = 0.45).ConclusionThis pilot study demonstrates the feasibility of ED-based interventions to increase uptake of LCS among ED patients. A scalable ED-based intervention that increases LCS uptake could reduce lung cancer mortality.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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