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Performance Measures For Small-Bowel Endoscopy: A European Society Of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (Esge) Quality Improvement Initiative, Cristiano Spada, Deirdre Mcnamara, Edward J Despott, Samuel Adler, Brooks D Cash, Ignacio Fernández-Urién, Hrvoje Ivekovic, Martin Keuchel, Mark Mcalindon, Jean-Christophe Saurin, Simon Panter, Cristina Bellisario, Silvia Minozzi, Carlo Senore, Cathy Bennett, Michael Bretthauer, Mario Dinis-Ribeiro, Dirk Domagk, Cesare Hassan, Michal F Kaminski, Colin J Rees, Roland Valori, Raf Bisschops, Matthew D Rutter

Journal Articles

The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) together with the United European Gastroenterology (UEG) recently developed a short list of performance measures for small-bowel endoscopy (i.e. small-bowel capsule endoscopy and device-assisted enteroscopy) with the final goal of providing endoscopy services across Europe with a tool for quality improvement. Six key performance measures both for small-bowel capsule endoscopy and for device-assisted enteroscopy were selected for inclusion, with the intention being that practice at both a service and endoscopist level should be evaluated against them. Other performance measures were considered to be less relevant, based on an assessment of their overall importance, …