The ACR Lung Cancer Screening Registry (LCSR) helps clinicians monitor and demonstrate the quality of their CT lung cancer screening program through feedback reports that include peer and registry benchmarks. Contributing data to the LCSR not only helps clinicians improve their own quality of care, but also helps improve and refine lung cancer screening care for everyone at the national level.

LCSR participation is certified as a Practice Quality Improvement (PQI) projects toward American Board of Radiology Part IV Maintenance of Certification (MOC) credit.

The LCSR is expanding and has evolved into the Early Lung Cancer Detection Registry (ELCDR).

The LCSR expansion supports 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 gathers 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 performance feedback provided for LCS exams, the new ELCDR helps healthcare organizations improve management of IPNs through diagnostic performance feedback and benchmarking.