Age, Race, and Income Are Associated With Lower Screening Rates at a Safety Net Hospital

BackgroundWhile lung cancer screening improves cancer-specific mortality and is recommended for high-risk patients, barriers to screening still exist. We sought to determine our institution’s (an urban safety net hospital) screening rate and to identify socioeconomic barriers to lung cancer screening.MethodsWe identified 8935 smokers 55 to 80 years of age evaluated by a primary care physician between March 2015 and March 2017 at our institution....