Table 4.

Rating/ranking of lung cancer screening attributes (n=219)

	Rating mean (SD)	Total first ranks n (%)	Total ranks (1st–3rd) n (% of 657 possible)
Reduce the chance of death from lung cancer	4.3 (1.0)	130 (59.4)	174 (26.5)
Avoiding chances of high out of pocket costs for additional scans, biopsies and complications	3.7 (1.2)	29 (13.2)	107 (16.2)
Avoiding complications of biopsies	3.7 (1.3)	13 (5.9)	101 (15.3)
Reduce risk of diagnosis with lung cancer	3.6 (1.4)	15 (6.8)	94 (14.3)
Avoiding biopsies that do not find cancer	3.6 (1.2)	16 (7.3)	98 (14.9)
Avoiding CT scans that do not find cancer, including false alarms	3.3 (1.2)	16 (7.3)	83 (12.6)