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The STOP-BANG questionnaire alone is insufficient to confirm the presence of significant sleep apnea. A maximal score of 8 did not have a high enough positive predictive value to forego confirmatory sleep testing.

The automated lung nodule registry tracking system can be exported to other health care facilities and significantly reduces the rate of tracking failure.

The need for cognitive closure describes the extent to which a person, faced with a decision, prefers any answer in lieu of continued uncertainty. This construct may be relevant in lung cancer screening, which can both reduce and increase uncertainty. We examined whether individual differences in need for cognitive closure are associated with Veterans’ completion of lung cancer screening using a self-administered survey ( N = 361). We also assessed whether need for cognitive closure moderates an association between screening completion and lung cancer risk perception. Contrary to our main hypothesis, high need for cognitive closure Veterans were not more likely to complete lung cancer screening and need for cognitive closure did not have a moderating role.