Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country

INTRODUCTION: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence, patient's characteristic and reasons for defaulting follow-up and treatment among patients with lung cancer. METHODS: Patients with histologically confirmed lung cancer were recruited. Patient's detailed demographic dat...

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Main Authors:	Ng, Teck Han, How, Soon Hin, Kuan, Yeh Chunn, Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
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Language:	English
Published:	Medknow Publications 2012
Subjects:	R Medicine (General)
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spelling	iium-234532013-06-26T14:00:50Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/23453/ Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country Ng, Teck Han How, Soon Hin Kuan, Yeh Chunn Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi R Medicine (General) INTRODUCTION: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence, patient's characteristic and reasons for defaulting follow-up and treatment among patients with lung cancer. METHODS: Patients with histologically confirmed lung cancer were recruited. Patient's detailed demographic data, occupation, socioeconomic status, and educational level of both the patients and their children were recorded. Defaulters were classified as either intermittent or persistent defaulters. By using Chi-square test, defaulter status was compared with various demographic and disease characteristic factors. The reasons for default were determined. RESULTS: Ninety five patients were recruited. Among them, 81.1% patients were males; 66.3% were Malays. The mean age (SD) was 60 ± 10.5 years. About 46.3% of the patients had Eastern Cooperation Oncology Group (ECOG) functional status 0/1 and 96.8% of the patients presented with advanced stage (Stage 3b or 4). Overall, 20 patients (21.1%) were defaulters (35.0% intermittent defaulters; 65.0% persistent defaulters). Among the intermittent defaulters, 8 patients defaulted once and one patient defaulted 3 times. Among the 20 defaulters, only 2 (10%) patients turned up for the second follow-up appointment after telephone reminder. Two main reasons for default were ‘too ill to come’ (38.5.5%) and logistic difficulties (23.1%). No correlation was found between patient education, children education, income, ECOG status, stage of the disease, race, and gender with the defaulter rate. Medknow Publications 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23453/4/n35_57.pdf Ng, Teck Han and How, Soon Hin and Kuan, Yeh Chunn and Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi (2012) Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country. Annals of thoracic medicine, 7 (1). pp. 12-15. ISSN 1998-3557 (o) 1817-1737 (p) http://www.thoracicmedicine.org/
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spellingShingle	R Medicine (General) Ng, Teck Han How, Soon Hin Kuan, Yeh Chunn Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country
description	INTRODUCTION: This study was carried out to determine the prevalence, patient's characteristic and reasons for defaulting follow-up and treatment among patients with lung cancer. METHODS: Patients with histologically confirmed lung cancer were recruited. Patient's detailed demographic data, occupation, socioeconomic status, and educational level of both the patients and their children were recorded. Defaulters were classified as either intermittent or persistent defaulters. By using Chi-square test, defaulter status was compared with various demographic and disease characteristic factors. The reasons for default were determined. RESULTS: Ninety five patients were recruited. Among them, 81.1% patients were males; 66.3% were Malays. The mean age (SD) was 60 ± 10.5 years. About 46.3% of the patients had Eastern Cooperation Oncology Group (ECOG) functional status 0/1 and 96.8% of the patients presented with advanced stage (Stage 3b or 4). Overall, 20 patients (21.1%) were defaulters (35.0% intermittent defaulters; 65.0% persistent defaulters). Among the intermittent defaulters, 8 patients defaulted once and one patient defaulted 3 times. Among the 20 defaulters, only 2 (10%) patients turned up for the second follow-up appointment after telephone reminder. Two main reasons for default were ‘too ill to come’ (38.5.5%) and logistic difficulties (23.1%). No correlation was found between patient education, children education, income, ECOG status, stage of the disease, race, and gender with the defaulter rate.
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author	Ng, Teck Han How, Soon Hin Kuan, Yeh Chunn Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
author_facet	Ng, Teck Han How, Soon Hin Kuan, Yeh Chunn Abdul Rani, Mohammed Fauzi
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title	Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country
title_short	Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country
title_full	Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country
title_fullStr	Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country
title_full_unstemmed	Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country
title_sort	defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country
publisher	Medknow Publications
publishDate	2012
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Defaulters among lung cancer patients in a suburban district in a developing country

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