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RAB studies have primarily been conducted at academic centers, limiting the generalizability of results to the broader real-world setting, while variability in diagnostic yield definitions has impaired the validity of cross-study comparisons. The objective of this study was to determine the diagnostic yield and sensitivity for malignancy of RAB in patients with pulmonary lesions in a community setting and explore the impact of different definitions on diagnostic yield estimates.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Data were collected retrospectively from medical records of patients\u2009\u2265\u200921\u00a0years who underwent bronchoscopy with the Monarch\u00ae Platform (Auris Health, Inc., Redwood City, CA) for biopsy of pulmonary lesions at three US community hospitals between January 2019 and March 2020. Diagnostic yield was calculated at the index RAB and using 12-month follow-up data. At index, all malignant and benign (specific and non-specific) diagnoses were considered diagnostic. After 12\u00a0months, benign non-specific cases were considered diagnostic only when follow-up data corroborated the benign result. An alternative definition at index classified benign non-specific results as non-diagnostic, while an alternative 12-month definition categorized index non-diagnostic cases as diagnostic if no malignancy was diagnosed during follow-up.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The study included 264 patients. Median lesion size was 19.3\u00a0mm, 58.9% were peripherally located, and 30.1% had a bronchus sign. Samples were obtained via Monarch in 99.6% of patients. Pathology led to a malignant diagnosis in 115 patients (43.6%), a benign diagnosis in 110 (41.7%), and 39 (14.8%) non-diagnostic cases. Index diagnostic yield was 85.2% (95% CI: [80.9%, 89.5%]) and the 12-month diagnostic yield was 79.4% (95% CI: [74.4%, 84.3%]). Alternative definitions resulted in diagnostic yield estimates of 58.7% (95% CI: [52.8%, 64.7%]) at index and 89.0% (95% CI: [85.1%, 92.8%]) at 12\u00a0months. Sensitivity for malignancy was 79.3% (95% CI: [72.7%, 85.9%]) and cancer prevalence was 58.0% after 12\u00a0months.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>RAB demonstrated a high diagnostic yield in the largest study to date, despite representing a real-world community population with a relatively low prevalence of cancer. 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