Welcome to the Advance Your Lung Cancer Screening Program Webinar Series. The ACR and the Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR) are pleased to bring thoracic radiologists, other lung cancer screening clinicians, and administrative personnel together for this three-part webinar series about tools designed to enhance your screening program’s quality assurance and quality improvement efforts. Learn about:
Changes to the ACR Lung-RADS® v2022 and the rationale for these updates along with a case-based demonstration of their application.
Recent enhancements to the Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) that enable LCS programs to track new key performance indicators such as adherence of your patients to annual screening.
The newly launched tools and resources supporting performance improvement initiatives using your LCSR data.
Past Webinars
Aug. 23, 2023 | An Approach to Structured Performance Improvement Using Your Lung Cancer Screening Registry Data
1. Introduction and Materials
Learn about new performance improvement tools and resources that provide a step-by-step approach for using your Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) data to advance your lung cancer screening program and improve patient care. A panel of radiologists will highlight the key performance indicators that provide significant opportunity for demonstrating improvement to departmental and institutional leaders. The presenters will delve into the new resources available, e.g., new registry reports and templates, that support pursuing a performance improvement initiative.
2. Learning Objectives
After attending this webinar, the participant should be better able to:
Describe adherence to annual screening, radiation dose, and non-smoking measures in the Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) and their importance to clinical practice.
Explain the Plan-Do-Study-Act improvement process and how to use the LCSR resources in each stage.
Analyze LCSR data using provided reports to identify and address performance gaps.
3. Speakers
Charles S. White, MD; Shawn Teague, MD; Ella Kazerooni, MD, MS, FACR; Jody R. Steinhardt, MPH, CHES; Dhiraj Baruah, MD; Jonathan H. Chung, MD
Aug. 9, 2023 | How Does Your Lung Cancer Screening Program Measure Up?
1. Introduction and Materials
Learn about the new features of the Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) to gain insight into your program’s performance and compare your results with peers. A panel of thoracic radiologists and ACR staff will highlight recent registry enhancements to include new measures that demonstrate your program’s growth of first-time screened patients, how your patients are adhering to annual screening, and new interactive reports that dig into the details.
2. Learning Objectives
After attending this webinar, the participant should be better able to:
Explain the recently implemented features of the Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) and how your facility can benefit.
Describe the new and existing measures in the LCSR and their importance to patient care.
Recognize how your lung cancer screening (LCS) data can be used to identify performance gaps and outliers in adherence to annual LCS, non-smoking rate, and appropriate radiation dose.
3. Speakers
Charles S. White, MD; Shawn Teague, MD; Ella Kazerooni, MD, MS, FACR; Jody R. Steinhardt, MPH, CHES; Dhiraj Baruah, MD; Jonathan H. Chung, MD; Mike Simanowith; Tom Fruscello; Lisa Gunderman
July 26, 2023 | ACR Lung-RADS® v2022: An Update on Lung Cancer Screening Reporting and Management
1. Introduction and Materials
Review the purpose and value of the Lung CT Screening Reporting & Data System (Lung-RADS®) quality assurance tool designed to standardize lung cancer screening reporting and recommendations for the follow up of lung nodules, reduce confusion in lung cancer screening CT interpretations, and facilitate outcome monitoring. Includes a case-based discussion of real-world implementation and nodule management and an audience Q&A.
2. Learning Objectives
After attending this webinar, the participant should be better able to:
Explain the history, purpose, and value of structured reporting in lung cancer screening (nodule management).
Describe the Lung-RADS v2022 nodule reporting and management tool’s classification and management of findings identified at lung cancer screening.
Recognize how to apply the Lung-RADS v2022 recommendations and guidelines to case-based care scenarios of lung cancer screening patients.