A Quality Improvement Project to Adopt United States Preventive Services Task Force Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines at a Primary Care Clinic

Abstract

The aim of this quality improvement project was to determine whether a provider and patient educational intervention based on the latest United States Preventive Services Task Force lung cancer screening guidelines would increase the number of low-dose computed tomographic (LDCT) studies completed. This project, which was conducted at a Michigan family practice clinic over a 3-month period, compared the number of pre- and postintervention LDCT studies completed for eligible patients (N = 276). Although there was no statistically significant increase in the number of postintervention LDCT studies completed, there was a statistically significant increase in the number of eligible patients who received lung cancer screening education.