The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Quality Improvement Initiative: developing performance measures
Language English Country Germany Media print-electronic
Document type Consensus Development Conference, Journal Article, Practice Guideline, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- MeSH
- Delphi Technique MeSH
- Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal standards MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Societies, Medical MeSH
- Quality Indicators, Health Care standards MeSH
- Quality Assurance, Health Care methods organization & administration MeSH
- Quality Improvement organization & administration standards MeSH
- Check Tag
- Humans MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Consensus Development Conference MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Practice Guideline MeSH
- Geographicals
- Europe MeSH
The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and United European Gastroenterology (UEG) have a vision to create a thriving community of endoscopy services across Europe, collaborating with each other to provide high quality, safe, accurate, patient-centered and accessible endoscopic care. Whilst the boundaries of what can be achieved by advanced endoscopy are continually expanding, we believe that one of the most fundamental steps to achieving our goal is to raise the quality of everyday endoscopy. The development of robust, consensus- and evidence-based key performance measures is the first step in this vision.ESGE and UEG have identified quality of endoscopy as a major priority. This paper explains the rationale behind the ESGE Quality Improvement Initiative and describes the processes that were followed. We recommend that all units develop mechanisms for audit and feedback of endoscopist and service performance using the ESGE performance measures that will be published in future issues of this journal over the next year. We urge all endoscopists and endoscopy services to prioritize quality and to ensure that these performance measures are implemented and monitored at a local level, so that we can provide the highest possible care for our patients.
CPO Piemonte AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza Torino Italy
Department of Digestive Diseases Hôpital Edouard Herriot Lyon France
Department of Gastroenterology Gloucestershire Royal Hospital Gloucester UK
Department of Gastroenterology University Hospital of North Tees Stockton on Tees Cleveland UK
Department of Health Management and Health Economics University of Oslo Oslo Norway
Department of Transplantation Medicine Oslo University Hospital Oslo Norway
Digestive Endoscopy Unit Catholic University Rome Italy
Gastroenterology Department University Hospital Leuven Leuven Belgium
Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital Rome Italy
Servicio de Gastroenterologia Instituto Portugues de Oncologia Francisco Gentil Porto Portugal
References provided by Crossref.org
