The Victorian Lung Cancer Registry Pilot: Improving the Quality of Lung Cancer Care Through the Use of a Disease Quality Registry

Abstract

Background: Lung cancer remains a major disease burden in Victoria (Australia) and requires a complex and multidisciplinary approach to ensure optimal care and outcomes. To date, no uniform mechanism is available to capture standardized population-based outcomes and thereby provide benchmarking. The establishment of such a data platform is, therefore, a primary requisite to enable description of process and outcome in lung cancer care and to drive improvement in the quality of care provided to individuals with lung cancer. Materials and Methods: A disease quality registry pilot has been established to capture prospective data on all adult patients with clinical or tissue diagnoses of small c..