Did death certificates and a death review process agree on lung cancer cause of death in the National Lung Screening Trial?

Background/aims: Randomized controlled trials frequently use death review committees to assign a cause of death rather than relying on cause of death information from death certificates. The National Lung Screening Trial, a randomized controlled trial of lung cancer screening with low-dose computed tomography versus chest X-ray for heavy and/or long-term smokers ages 55–74 years at enrollment, used a committee blinded to arm assignment for a...