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Increase the proportion of adults who get screened for lung cancer — C‑03 Data

Status: Baseline only

  Baseline only

Most Recent Data:
4.5 percent (2015) *

Target:
7.5 percent *

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
4.5 percent of adults aged 55 to 80 years received a lung cancer screening based on the most recent guidelines in 2015 *

Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.

Disparities data are only available for some selections.

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Confidence Interval (CI) not available Standard Error (SE) not available Confidence Interval (CI) and Standard Error (SE) are not available

Adults receiving lung cancer screening based on the most recent guidelines, 2015 * 
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2015
Total
4.5
CI 2.7 / 7.1
SE 1.078