Colonoscopy: Quality Indicators

Quality indicators for colonoscopy

Colonoscopy is widely used for the diagnosis and treatlesions that are endoscopically subtle or difficult to rement of colon disorders. Properly performed, colonoscopy is generally safe, accurate, and well-tolerated. Visualization of the mucosa of the entire large intestine and distal terminal ileum usually is possible during colonoscopy. Polyps can be removed during colonoscopy, thereby reduci...

Quality indicators in colonoscopy practice.

Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures

Colonoscopy remains the gold standard for morphologic colon. Despite the development of new methods of morphologic bowel, colonoscopy is still considered the « gold standard » because of its ability at detecting small neoplasic lesions as well as adenomas. Unlike other methods, colonoscopy has the great advantage of carrying out the same time the removal of polyps. Colonoscopy also has a number...

Colonoscopy Quality Improvement: Quality Indicators and Benchmarks

Introduction Increasing efforts to reform health care and contain medical expenditures have accelerated the push to define, capture, and enforce quality measures for delivered care. This trend is evident particularly for procedural and preventative measures that can have a marked effect on patient outcomes and health care costs, such as the use of colonoscopy for screening and surveillance for ...

Quality indicators for colonoscopy: The road forward.

Division of Gastroenterology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Correspondence: Dr David Armstrong, Division of Gastroenterology, McMaster University, 1200 Main Street West, HSC-3V3, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5. Telephone 905-521-2100 ext 76404, fax 905-521-4958, email [email protected] Received and accepted for publication April 14, 2014 The widespread introduction of colon cancer screeni...