Prevention, Diagnosis, Therapy, and Follow-up of Lung Cancer

Abstract

This abridged version is based on an interdisciplinary guideline which corresponds to development stage 3 (S3) of guidelines according to the classification of the Association of the Scientific Medical Societies in Germany (AWMF). The guideline development process is characterized by the combination of formal evidence-search, formal consensus, logic (algorithms), decision and outcome analysis, and interdisciplinary development with the cooperation of 15 German and Austrian medical societies. [Table 1] shows the relationship between levels of evidence, consensus, and resulting recommendation grades of the recommendations of this guideline. The recommendation grades A – D are added to the recommendations in the abridged version. For the evidence levels, see the full version [1].