Hongchen Zheng, Zhen Liu, Yun Chen, Ping Ji, Zhengyu Fang, Yujie He, Chuanhai Guo, Ping Xiao, Chengwen Wang, Weihua Yin, Fenglei Li, Xiujian Chen, Mengfei Liu, Yaqi Pan, Fangfang Liu, Ying Liu, Zhonghu He, Yang Ke
BACKGROUND: Clinical opportunistic screening is a cost-effective cancer screening modality. This study aimed to establish an easy-to-use diagnostic model serving as a risk stratification tool for identification of individuals with malignant gastric lesions for opportunistic screening. METHODS: We developed a questionnaire-based diagnostic model using a joint dataset including two clinical cohorts from northern and southern China. The cohorts consisted of 17,360 outpatients who had undergone upper gastrointestinal endoscopic examination in endoscopic clinics...
February 26, 2024: Chinese Medical Journal