Quality standards and performance measures: steps to high quality diagnostic endoscopy

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Editorial

Yu Kyung Cho. Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018.

. 2018 Jan 28:3:7.

doi: 10.21037/tgh.2018.01.04. eCollection 2018.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, The College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The author has no conflicts of interest to declare.

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