Cancer diagnosis in Scottish primary care: results from the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit

The National Cancer Diagnosis Audit (NCDA) in Scotland received enabling support from Cancer Research UK and the Scottish Government. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThis audit used data provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. The authors would like to thank all GPs and health professionals who participated in the NCDA in Scotland and England, the members of the NCDA Steering Group (National Cancer Diagnosis Audit (2014) Steering Group: Sue Ballard (patient †), Patricia Barnett, David H Brewster, Cathy Burton, Anthony Cunliffe, Jane Fenton-May,Anna Gavin, Sara Hiom(chair),Peter Hutchison, Dyfed Huws, Maggie Kemmner, Rosie Loftus, Georgios Lyratzopoulos,Emma McNair, John Marsh (patient), Jodie Moffat, Sean McPhail, Peter Murchie, Andy Murphy, Sophia Nicola, Imran Rafi, Jem Rashbass, Richard Roope, Greg Rubin, Brian Shand, Ruth Swann, Janet Warlow, David Weller and Jana Witt.) and contributing staff at Cancer Research UK; Information Services Division (NHS Scotland); Scottish Government; the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (Public Health England); NHS England; the Royal College of General Practitioners; and Macmillan Cancer SupportPeer reviewedPostprin

Trends in lung cancer emergency presentation in England, 2006–2013: is there a pattern by general practice?

Supplementary material to a paper on trends in lung cancer emergency presentation in England, 2006–2013. Five files are contained: a description of practice level characteristics considered in the analyses (Table S1), characteristics of lung cancer patients diagnosed in 2006 to 2013 by emergency presentation type and for non-emergency presentations (Table S2), a comparison of logistic models and mixed logistic models for the modelling of emergency presentation by patient and practice variables, lung cancer patients diagnosed in 2010 (Table S3), Odds Ratio for the models presented in Table S2 and Additional file 5 (Table S4), and ROC curves associated with two sets of models defined in Table S1 (Figure S1