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Practice Guideline
. 2021 Feb;9(1):120-126.
doi: 10.1177/2050640620981366. Epub 2021 Feb 10.

Overcoming the barriers to dissemination and implementation of quality measures for gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and United European Gastroenterology (UEG) position statement

Raf Bisschops  1 , Matthew D Rutter  2   3 , Miguel Areia  4   5 , Cristiano Spada  6   7 , Dirk Domagk  8 , Michel F Kaminski  9 , Andrew Veitch  10 , Wafaa Khanoussi  11   12 , Ian M Gralnek  13   14 , Cesare Hassan  15 , Helmut Messmann  16 , Thierry Ponchon  17 , Paul Fockens  18 , Axel Dignass  19 , Mario Dinis-Ribeiro  5   20
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Overcoming the barriers to dissemination and implementation of quality measures for gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and United European Gastroenterology (UEG) position statement

Raf Bisschops et al. United European Gastroenterol J. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) has developed performance measures and established a framework for quality assessment for gastrointestinal endoscopy in Europe. Most national societies actively undertake initiatives to implement and explicitly endorse these quality indicators. Given this, the ESGE proposes that, at a national level, strong leadership should exist to disseminate and implement quality parameters. Thus, understanding the potential barriers that may vary locally is of paramount importance. The ESGE suggests that each national society should prioritise quality and standards of care in gastrointestinal endoscopy in their activities and should survey/understand which measures area local priority to their members and make measuring quality intrinsic to daily endoscopy practice.

Keywords: endoscopy service; patient outcome; performance measures; quality; quality indicator; underperformance.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author(s) declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Raf Bisschops is supported by the Research Foundation–Flanders (FWO) and has provided consultancy and received speaker's fees and research support from Norgine, Pentax Europe and Fujifilm (2017 to present). Matthew D. Rutter has received research grants from Olympus and Fujifilm (2018 to present). Michel F. Kaminski has provided speaking, teaching and consultancy services to Olympus (2017 to present), and speaking and teaching services to Fujifilm, from whom he also has equipment on loan (2019 to present). Cristiano Spada has provided consultancy to Medtronic (2017–2020). Miguel Areia, Axel Dignass, Dirk Domagk, Paul Fockens, Ian M Gralnek, Cesare Hassan, Wafaa Khanoussi, Helmut Messmann, Thierry Ponchon, Mario Dinis‐Ribeiro and Andrew Veitch declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Percentage of endorsement of performance measures by national societies. ERCP, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography; EUS, endoscopic ultrasound; GI, gastrointestinal
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Levels of coverage for electronic reporting systems among different countries
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The different levels of development for gastrointestinal endoscopy reporting
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