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Recent advances in clinical practice
Expert opinions and scientific evidence for colonoscopy key performance indicators
  1. Colin J Rees1,
  2. Roisin Bevan2,
  3. Katharina Zimmermann-Fraedrich3,
  4. Matthew D Rutter2,
  5. Douglas Rex4,
  6. Evelien Dekker5,
  7. Thierry Ponchon6,
  8. Michael Bretthauer7,
  9. Jaroslaw Regula8,
  10. Brian Saunders9,
  11. Cesare Hassan10,
  12. Michael J Bourke11,
  13. Thomas Rösch3
  1. 1Department of Gastroenterology, South Tyneside District Hospital, South Shields, UK
  2. 2Department of Gastroenterology, North Tees University Hospital, Stockton-on-Tees, UK
  3. 3Department of Interdisciplinary Endoscopy, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
  4. 4Department of Gastroenterology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, USA
  5. 5Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  6. 6Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon University, Lyon, France
  7. 7Department of Health Management and Health Economics and KG Jebsen Center for Colorectal Cancer Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
  8. 8Department of Gastroenterology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education and the Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland
  9. 9Department of Gastroenterology, St Mark's Hospital and Academic Institute, Harrow, UK
  10. 10Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
  11. 11Department of Gastroenterology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia
  1. Correspondence to Professor Colin J Rees, Department of Gastroenterology, South Tyneside District Hospital, South Shields NE34 0PL, UK; colin.rees{at}stft.nhs.uk

Abstract

Colonoscopy is a widely performed procedure with procedural volumes increasing annually throughout the world. Many procedures are now performed as part of colorectal cancer screening programmes. Colonoscopy should be of high quality and measures of this quality should be evidence based. New UK key performance indicators and quality assurance standards have been developed by a working group with consensus agreement on each standard reached. This paper reviews the scientific basis for each of the quality measures published in the UK standards.

  • COLONOSCOPY
  • ENDOSCOPIC POLYPECTOMY
  • COLONIC POLYPS
  • ENDOSCOPY

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https://doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2016-312043

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    • Contributors All authors were involved in writing this manuscript, which was initially drafted by CJR, RB and TR. All reviewed and agreed the manuscript.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.