NQMC Update Service: January 23, 2017 || British Thoracic Society

NQMC Update Service: January 23, 2017

British Thoracic Society

• Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy: proportion of patients who had endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) sampling and suffer a complication as a result of the procedure.
• Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy: proportion of patients with confirmed diagnosis of lung cancer who underwent endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) sampling for diagnosis/staging who were diagnosed and accurately staged by EBUS-TBNA sampling.
• Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy: proportion of patients with confirmed lung cancer where genotyping was appropriately requested from endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) sampling where sufficient tissue for genotyping was obtained.
• Diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy: proportion of patients with non small cell lung cancer diagnosis confirmed from endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS) sampling with non small cell lung cancer, not otherwise specified (NSCLC NOS) diagnosed from EBUS sampling.