- The Victorian Lung Cancer (VLCR) is a clinical quality registry that monitors the quality of care provided to Australians diagnosed with lung cancer.
- The VLCR was established in 2012, and is managed by the Cancer Research Program, within the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. The School has extensive experience in both the establishment and management of clinical registries, and is considered a centre of excellence in clinical registry science.
- The VLCR aims to identify unwarranted variation in treatment and outcomes for people with newly diagnosed lung cancer and provide timely risk-adjusted benchmarked reports of quality of care to participating hospitals.
- The Registry is overseen by a Steering Committee which includes: consumer representatives; representatives from Cancer Council Victoria; Monash University; and clinicians from a number of participating hospitals.
- The VLCR collects information about the diagnosis, treatment and outcomes of individuals with lung cancer.
- information is collected by electronically via data linkage with participating hospitals and manually by trained data collectors from hospital medical records and private clinician rooms.
- The information collected will be used to measure the quality of care provided by participating hospitals.
- Reports are provided to participating hospitals to show the quality of care they deliver, with outcomes compared with those of other participating hospitals. The reports highlight areas where a hospital is providing high quality of care and where improvements can be made.
- Participant information will be used by the registry team to generate reports for hospitals, publications, presentations and future research projects that require Registry data.
- The information will be reported in such as way that you cannot be identified.
Meet the Team
The VLCR is governed by a Steering Committee, a committee of medical oncologists, respiratory and cardio-thoracic specialists, registry experts, participant/consumer advocates, partnership representatives and representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services. The Committee has developed quality indicators for the VLCR drawing from extensive clinical experience and current national and international guidelines as well as relevant published literature.
Professor John Zalcberg, OAM
Academic Lead VLCR
MBBS, PhD, FRACP, FACMA, FAIC
Medical Oncologist
Tony Charlton Chair of Oncology, Alfred Health
Head, Cancer Research Program, DEPM, SPHPM, Monash University
Associate Professor Robert Stirling
VLCR Clinical Lead and Steering Committee Chair
BSc (Hons), MB BCh (Hons), MRCPI, FRACP, RCPI, MPH
Senior Respiratory Specialist, Department of Allergy, Immunology & Respiratory Medicine
Alfred Health, Monash University
Associate Professor Susan Harden
VLCR Senior Research Fellow
BMBCh, DM(Oxon), FRANZCR
Radiation Oncologist, School of Public Health & Preventative Medicine
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Monash University
Margaret Brand
VLCR Project Coordinator
BEc, MPH
School of Public Health & Preventative Medicine
Monash University
Dani Samankula
Research Officer
BSc, MNSc, MPH
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University
Sanuki Tissera
Research Assistant, PhD Candidate
BBiomedSc(Hons), MClinRes
School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine
Monash University
Funding
Funding for the VLCR comes from government, public and private sources.