Latest Developments
The American College of Radiology Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) is expanding and will evolve into the Early Lung Cancer Detection Registry in late 2025.
The LCSR expansion will support diagnostic performance feedback on management of actionable incidental pulmonary nodules (IPNs) with new measures focused on the quality of radiology report recommendations and timely recommended follow-up completion rates.
The IPN module will gather data to facilitate appropriate and timely follow-up patient care. The registry continues to expand and evolve as new requirements and priorities are identified by the LCSR Committee and input from the larger lung cancer screening community.
In addition to the current performance feedback provided for LCS exams, the new Early Lung Cancer Detection Registry will help healthcare organizations improve management of IPNs through diagnostic performance feedback and benchmarking.
The project’s physician co-advisors, Ella Kazerooni, MD, MS, FACR, and Ben Wandtke, MD, MS, lead the expanded vision for the IPN module. You may read more about this project by visiting the Harnessing the Value of Clinical Registries blog.
The Opportunity
ACR seeks radiology practices participating in the LCSR to test new quality measures, data collection for these measures, registry user performance feedback reports, and quality improvement tools to strengthen lung cancer screening (LCS) and IPN management programs. The new quality measures address diagnostic performance feedback on:
- Appropriateness or quality of recommendations for follow-up of IPNs
- Tracking the completion of recommended follow-up occurring within the recommended time range.
If your practice, facility, department, or system is interested in testing the draft IPN module or learning more about the project, please email jburleson@acr.org.