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. 2019 Jul;7(6):798-806.
doi: 10.1177/2050640619841539. Epub 2019 Apr 2.

Development of a national automated endoscopy database: The United Kingdom National Endoscopy Database (NED)

Thomas Jw Lee  1 , Keith Siau  2   3 , Shiran Esmaily  4 , James Docherty  5 , John Stebbing  6 , Matthew J Brookes  7 , Raphael Broughton  2 , Peter Rogers  8 , Paul Dunckley  9 , Matthew D Rutter  4   10   11
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Development of a national automated endoscopy database: The United Kingdom National Endoscopy Database (NED)

Thomas Jw Lee et al. United European Gastroenterol J. 2019 Jul.

Abstract

Background: The National Endoscopy Database (NED) project commenced in 2013 under the auspices of the Joint Advisory Group. The aim is to upload endoscopy procedure data from all units across the United Kingdom to a centralised database. The database can be used to facilitate quality assurance, research and training in endoscopy.

Objective: This article describes the development and implementation process of NED from its inception to date.

Methods: NED utilises automated data uploading of a minimum dataset from local endoscopy reporting systems to a central national database via the internet. Currently all data are anonymised. Key performance indicators are presented to endoscopists and organisations on a web-based platform for quality assurance purposes.

Results: As of October 2018, 295 endoscopy services out of a total of 529 known services in the UK (56%) are actively uploading to NED. Data from more than 400,000 endoscopic procedures have been uploaded.

Conclusion: UK-wide data collection from endoscopy units to a central database is feasible using an automated upload system. This has the potential to facilitate endoscopy quality assurance and research.

Keywords: Colonoscopy; ERCP; database; endoscopy; gastroscopy; quality.

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Figure 1.
Screenshot of the National Endoscopy Database website which displays endoscopist-specific key performance indicators (KPI) in colonoscopy for an anonymised endoscopist.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Screenshot of the National Endoscopy Database website funnel plot function, which displays the caecal intubation rate for Endoscopist X (red dot), in relation to the performance of individual endoscopists within the organisation (blue dots), the organisation average (blue line) and the national average (grey line).
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