TY - JOUR
T1 - Four years experience of the survey on quality control of lung cancer screening system in Japan
AU - Sagawa, Motoyasu
AU - Endo, Chiaki
AU - Sato, Masami
AU - Saito, Yasuki
AU - Sobue, Tomotaka
AU - Usuda, Katsuo
AU - Aikawa, Hirokazu
AU - Fujimura, Shigefumi
AU - Sakuma, Tsutomu
PY - 2009/2/1
Y1 - 2009/2/1
N2 - Although quality control is essential in mass screening system for early detection of cancer, no global method for quality control has not been established, because the mass screening system in each country is quite different from each other. At present, we have to find appropriate method for each cancer and for each country. In 2000, The Lung Cancer Screening Division (LCSD) of the Miyagi Prefectural Committee for Management of the Cancer Screening System (Miyagi PCMCSS) decided to evaluate annually whether the local governments had appropriate information to evaluate the quality of lung cancer screening systems, announcing that the results would be informed to residents. On the basis of the manual developed by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 45 items were selected as indicators for the survey, which could be obtained easily when the screening had been conducted according to the standard method. LCSD of Miyagi PCMCSS sent a questionnaire including the 45 items to the municipalities. According to the reply to the questionnaire, LCSD rated each municipality using a 5-rank classification depend on the number of insufficient items: A: 0; B: 1-4; C: 5-8; D: 9 or more; E: no reply. As the results, 58, 3, 6, 3, and 0 municipalities were categorized in 2002 as A, B, C, D, and E, respectively. In 2003, the number of municipalities changed to 60, 7, 2, 1, and 0. In 2005, the distribution improved more, such as 68, 2, 0, 0, and 0. The detection rate of lung cancer also improved. It is possible for PCMCSS to annually conduct surveys to determine whether the local government has appropriate information to evaluate the quality of lung cancer screening systems. Such surveys improve the distribution of response to better direction.
AB - Although quality control is essential in mass screening system for early detection of cancer, no global method for quality control has not been established, because the mass screening system in each country is quite different from each other. At present, we have to find appropriate method for each cancer and for each country. In 2000, The Lung Cancer Screening Division (LCSD) of the Miyagi Prefectural Committee for Management of the Cancer Screening System (Miyagi PCMCSS) decided to evaluate annually whether the local governments had appropriate information to evaluate the quality of lung cancer screening systems, announcing that the results would be informed to residents. On the basis of the manual developed by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, 45 items were selected as indicators for the survey, which could be obtained easily when the screening had been conducted according to the standard method. LCSD of Miyagi PCMCSS sent a questionnaire including the 45 items to the municipalities. According to the reply to the questionnaire, LCSD rated each municipality using a 5-rank classification depend on the number of insufficient items: A: 0; B: 1-4; C: 5-8; D: 9 or more; E: no reply. As the results, 58, 3, 6, 3, and 0 municipalities were categorized in 2002 as A, B, C, D, and E, respectively. In 2003, the number of municipalities changed to 60, 7, 2, 1, and 0. In 2005, the distribution improved more, such as 68, 2, 0, 0, and 0. The detection rate of lung cancer also improved. It is possible for PCMCSS to annually conduct surveys to determine whether the local government has appropriate information to evaluate the quality of lung cancer screening systems. Such surveys improve the distribution of response to better direction.
KW - Cancer screening
KW - Lung cancer
KW - Quality assurance
KW - Quality control
KW - Screening
KW - Survey
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U2 - 10.1016/j.lungcan.2008.05.012
DO - 10.1016/j.lungcan.2008.05.012
M3 - Article
C2 - 18579255
AN - SCOPUS:58049209294
VL - 63
SP - 291
EP - 294
JO - Lung Cancer
JF - Lung Cancer
SN - 0169-5002
IS - 2
ER -