Table 7.
—Practice Patterns and Guideline Consistency Stratified by Stage for SEER 2004 to 2007
| Evaluation Inconsistent With Guidelines | |||||
| Stage | Evaluation Consistent With Guidelines, Sampling Done First | NSCLC Present, Mediastinal Sampling Performed Second or Later | NSCLC Present, Mediastinal Sampling Never Done | Small Cell Lung Cancer Present | Total |
| IIA or IIB | 282 (22)a | 613 (48) | 302 (24) | 84 (7) | 1,281 (100) |
| IIIA | 565 (19) | 725 (24) | 1,391 (47) | 310 (10) | 2,991 (100) |
| IIIB | 86 (16) | 63 (12) | 325 (62) | 52 (10) | 526 (100) |
| Total | 933 (19) | 1,401 (29) | 2,018 (42) | 446 (9) | 4,798 (100) |
Data are presented as No. (%). See Table 1 legend for expansion of abbreviation.
a
P value < .001 for guideline-consistent care and stage.