Illustrative Quotes of Subtheme 1c, How Likely Is My Patient to Follow Up?
| Respondent | Quote |
|---|---|
| Respondent 4 | Maybe somebody who may be elderly or older, but maybe having dementia and has a lot of needs and other people are taking care of them, like is this really somebody who I’m trying to diagnose with lung cancer? |
| Respondent 5 | I think it’s 2 things. One is sort of like my mental bandwidth to think about [LCS]. Then the second is I think my perception of [the patient’s] ability to kind of follow through. |
| Respondent 11 | So, like if they’re on dialysis, and they are on oxygen, and like their arms are amputated already, I mean kind of also the thing you have to think about is like who’s going to take care of them when they’re undergoing, like, treatment. |
| Respondent 12 | Like if they didn’t have a good support system, like how do they even survive? It’s like also what’s their mental state like because if they’re like, “Oh, I don’t want to know if anything happens.” Then like let them know that they have cancer not being able to do anything about it, is it going to kind of make them not sleep at night? Then that might be a decision to not go ahead. |
| Respondent 13 | I mean these are good tests. I’m sure we can pick up tumors in the early stage and then we can do an intervention and potentially have a curable cancer, but [LCS] wouldn’t tell you you’d be willing to do [follow-up] and also well enough to do [treatment] … well enough to do this and that, as much as would it be something that you’d be willing to do should it be abnormal. I think just kind of getting the sense of how concerned they are and how willing they are to go for [LCS] and then for the follow-up workup. |
LCS = lung cancer screening.