ACR CT Accreditation Program and the Lung Cancer Screening Program Designation

The Fleischner Society 2017 and British Thoracic Society 2015 guidelines for managing pulmonary nodules: keep calm and carry on

“…In the USA, guidance on the investigation and management of pulmonary nodules, including further surgical and non-surgical management, is already available from the ACCP 8. Lung cancer screening is currently recommended in the USA,20 and programmes are required to adhere to a more protocol-driven (but also diameter-based), quality-assured standard of reporting such as the American College of Radiology Lung CT Screening Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS) 21. In contrast, lung cancer screening is not yet recommended or widely available in the UK.…”

Lung Cancer Screening

“…The American College of Radiology has published guidelines for LDCT image acquisition, reporting, and quality control, along with criteria for designation as a lung cancer screening center with an emphasis on the imaging components. 45 …”

Lung Cancer Workshop XI: Tobacco-Induced Disease: Advances in Policy, Early Detection and Management

“…It was recognized that a model for quality monitoring comes from the American College of Radiology where there is a program to monitor CT scan dose. (14) The system involves having de-identified data sent to a central repository where it is analyzed and reports are sent back to individual sites that provide summary dose reports as well as comparisons to other facilities. It was also recognized that the opportunity will exist to go beyond reporting parameters that can be extracted from the DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) files which are the standard format for digital image storage for medical images.…”