Annual chest x‐ray screening vs usual care (no regular screening): Mortality: lung cancer
Annual chest x‐ray screening showed no clear difference in lung cancer mortality at 6 years of compared with usual care (no regular screening) (high certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Annual chest x‐ray screening vs usual care (no regular screening) Lung cancer mortality at 6 years of · Patients with lung cancer Annual chest x‐ray screening showed no clear difference in lung cancer mortality at 6 years of compared with usual care (no regular screening) (high certainty). Screening for lung cancer (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.91 [0.81, 1.03] | 1 study · 154901 participants | High |
Annual chest x‐ray screening vs usual care (no regular screening) Lung cancer mortality at 13 years of · Patients with lung cancer Annual chest x‐ray screening showed no clear difference in lung cancer mortality at 13 years of compared with usual care (no regular screening) (high certainty). Screening for lung cancer (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.99 [0.91, 1.07] | 1 study · 154901 participants | High |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Screening for lung cancer 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.