Current Practice in the Management of Pulmonary Nodules Detected on Computed Tomography Chest Scans

Table 1

Baseline patient characteristics of study population (n = 139) in the adherent to follow-up vs. nonadherent to the follow-up group.

	Patients adherent to follow-up (N = 97)	Patients nonadherent to follow-up (N = 42)	value
Mean age (yrs)	65.89	62.57	0.23
Sex (%)			0.98
Female	40.2% (N = 39)	40.5% (N = 17)
Male	59.8% (N = 58)	59.5% (N = 25)
City of residence			0.18
Within Vancouver	58.8% (N = 57)	71.4% (N = 30)
Outside of Vancouver	41.2% (N = 40)	28.6% (N = 12)
Primary language			0.46
English	85.6% (N = 83)	78.6% (N = 33)
Other languages	14.4% (N = 14)	18.1% (N = 8)
Unknown	0	2.4% (N = 1)
Size of nodules (mm)	19.82	12.94	0.01