Publication: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2025.103878
Published in Clinical Oncology, 26 May 2025
Rob G. Stirling, Udani Samankula, Mike Lloyd, Margaret Brand, Lisa Briggs, Jacqueline Lesage, Tom Wood, Craig Underhill, Sagun Parakh, Wasek Faisal, Rob Blum, Gary Richardson, Phillip Parente, Michelle Caldecott, Inger Olesen, Javier Torres, Evangeline Samuel, Barton Jennings, Katharine See, David Langton, John Zalcberg
This study identified significant variation in hospital lung cancer CQI attainment and unwarranted variation between stakeholder sites. Stakeholder focus on this variation provides context specific opportunity to identify local improvement opportunities. These process measures impact outcome measures including survival, and enable the evaluation of the evidence-practice gap for service innovation and iterative quality improvement.
Data were sourced from the Victorian Lung Cancer Registry, capturing lung cancer management performance data from 19 healthcare networks and 50 hospitals. The observational study assessed whether 25 clinical quality indicators were attained in 12,121 consecutive, newly diagnosed lung cancer patients to enable hospital benchmark comparisons.
There was a high level of regional participation, including researchers, oncologists and respiratory physicians from hospitals across Victoria and regional NSW, including oncologists and researchers from our regional network.