Publications by authors named "Andrea Borondy Kitts"

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  • - Lung cancer, diagnosed at a median age of 70, poses serious health challenges for older Americans, particularly after surgery, where patients face issues like pain and diminished physical function.
  • - A study involving 382 older adults with lung cancer will compare two approaches: telephone-based physical activity coaching versus self-monitoring of physical activity, focusing on their impact on functional capacity and quality of life.
  • - The primary goal is to see if coaching can improve patients' performance on a 6-minute walk test and overall well-being 30 days post-surgery, while also addressing the needs of their family caregivers.
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Introduction: To facilitate global implementation of lung cancer (LC) screening and early detection in a quality assured and consistent manner, common terminology is needed. Researchers and clinicians within different specialties may use the same terms but with different meanings or different terms for the same intended meanings.

Methods: The Diagnostics Working Group of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer Early Detection and Screening Committee has analyzed and discussed relevant terms used on a regular basis and suggests recommendations for consensus definitions of terminology applicable in this setting.

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Building upon prior work developing and pilot testing a provider-focused Empathic Communication Skills (ECS) training intervention, this study sought feedback from key invested partners who work with individuals with lung cancer (i.e. stakeholders including scientific and clinical advisors and patient advocates) on the ECS training intervention.

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There are two major areas for patient engagement in radiology artificial intelligence (AI). One is in the sharing of data for AI development; the second is the use of AI in patient care. In general, individuals support sharing deidentified data if used for the common good, to help others with similar health conditions, or for research.

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Introduction: The second leading cause of lung cancer is air pollution. Air pollution and smoking are synergistic. Air pollution can worsen lung cancer survival.

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  • - The European Council endorsed a stepwise approach for implementing lung cancer screening using low radiation dose computed tomography (LDCT) based on strong evidence, emphasizing the need for an evidence-based and cost-effective process.
  • - A collaborative group of various European societies conducted a thorough review of the literature to create a technical standard for a high-quality lung cancer screening program, focusing on ten key components essential for effective implementation.
  • - The resulting technical standard includes 53 statements for screening implementation while identifying areas needing further research, helping ensure that lung cancer screening is reliable and beneficial for patients as per the European Council's recommendations.
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Low dose computed tomography (LDCT) is an effective screening test to decrease lung cancer deaths. Lung cancer screening may be a teachable moment helping people who smoke to quit, which may result in increased benefit of screening. Innovative strategies are needed to engage high-risk individuals in learning about LDCT screening.

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Future optimization of computed tomography (CT) lung cancer screening (CTLS) algorithms will depend on clinical outcomes data. To report the outcomes of positive and suspicious findings in a clinical CTLS program. We retrospectively reviewed results for patients from our institution undergoing lung cancer screening from January 2012 through December 2018, with follow-up through December 2019.

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  • Radiology is leading the way in integrating artificial intelligence into healthcare, impacting areas such as patient selection, study acquisition, and image interpretation.
  • Developers require large health record data sets, which leads to contractual agreements for data sharing, accompanied by careful curation and annotation of this data.
  • In 2019, the ACR established a Data Sharing Workgroup to identify best practices for sharing health information, focusing on five key areas: privacy, informed consent, standardization, vendor contracts, and data valuation.
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A core principle of ethical data sharing is maintaining the security and anonymity of the data, and care must be taken to ensure medical records and images cannot be reidentified to be traced back to patients or misconstrued as a breach in the trust between health care providers and patients. Once those principles have been observed, those seeking to share data must take the appropriate steps to curate the data in a way that organizes the clinically relevant information so as to be useful to the data sharing party, assesses the ensuing value of the data set and its annotations, and informs the data sharing contracts that will govern use of the data. Embarking on a data sharing partnership engenders a host of ethical, practical, technical, legal, and commercial challenges that require a thoughtful, considered approach.

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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, accounting for almost a fifth of all cancer-related deaths. Annual computed tomographic lung cancer screening (CTLS) detects lung cancer at earlier stages and reduces lung cancer-related mortality among high-risk individuals. Many medical organizations, including the U.

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This is a condensed summary of an international multisociety statement on ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology produced by the ACR, European Society of Radiology, RSNA, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics, Canadian Association of Radiologists, and American Association of Physicists in Medicine. AI has great potential to increase efficiency and accuracy throughout radiology, but it also carries inherent pitfalls and biases. Widespread use of AI-based intelligent and autonomous systems in radiology can increase the risk of systemic errors with high consequence and highlights complex ethical and societal issues.

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This is a condensed summary of an international multisociety statement on ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology produced by the ACR, European Society of Radiology, RSNA, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics, Canadian Association of Radiologists, and American Association of Physicists in Medicine. AI has great potential to increase efficiency and accuracy throughout radiology, but it also carries inherent pitfalls and biases. Widespread use of AI-based intelligent and autonomous systems in radiology can increase the risk of systemic errors with high consequence and highlights complex ethical and societal issues.

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This is a condensed summary of an international multisociety statement on ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology produced by the ACR, European Society of Radiology, RSNA, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics, Canadian Association of Radiologists, and American Association of Physicists in Medicine. AI has great potential to increase efficiency and accuracy throughout radiology, but it also carries inherent pitfalls and biases. Widespread use of AI-based intelligent and autonomous systems in radiology can increase the risk of systemic errors with high consequence and highlights complex ethical and societal issues.

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This is a condensed summary of an international multisociety statement on ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology produced by the ACR, European Society of Radiology, RSNA, Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine, European Society of Medical Imaging Informatics, Canadian Association of Radiologists, and American Association of Physicists in Medicine.AI has great potential to increase efficiency and accuracy throughout radiology, but also carries inherent pitfalls and biases. Widespread use of AI-based intelligent and autonomous systems in radiology can increase the risk of systemic errors with high consequence, and highlights complex ethical and societal issues.

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Lung cancer screening is just starting to be implemented across the United States. Challenges to screening include access to care, awareness of the option for screening, stigma and implicit bias that are due to stigmatization of smoking, stigma of race, nihilism with lung cancer diagnosis viewed as a "death sentence," shared decision making, and underestimation of lung cancer risk. African Americans (AA) have the highest lung cancer mortality rate in the United States despite similar smoking rates as whites.

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This review assessed the performance of patients in NCCN high-risk group 2 in a clinical CT lung screening (CTLS) program. We retrospectively reviewed screening results for all patients from our institution undergoing clinical CTLS from January 2012 through December 2016, with follow-up through June 2017. To qualify for screening, patients had to meet the NCCN Guidelines high-risk criteria for CTLS, have a physician order for screening, be asymptomatic, be lung cancer-free for 5 years, and have no known metastatic disease.

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