The Italian JAG: endoscopy quality measurement spreads?

Measuring the quality of endoscopy.

The practice of gastrointestinal endoscopy is facing a crisis. There is decreasing reimbursement for endoscopic procedures in the face of increasing demand. We are challenged to assess the quality of the services we provide. Although providing the best possible patient care is our most important goal, we are poorly equipped to measure our ability to achieve that goal. Our financial future is in...

How to Improve the Quality of Screening Endoscopy in Korea: National Endoscopy Quality Improvement Program

In Korea, gastric cancer screening, either esophagogastroduodenoscopy or upper gastrointestinal series (UGIS), is performed biennially for adults aged 40 years or older. Screening endoscopy has been shown to be associated with localized cancer detection and better than UGIS. However, the diagnostic sensitivity of detecting cancer is not satisfactory. The National Endoscopy Quality Improvement (...

4 Maintaining Quality in Endoscopy

Measuring Quality in Pediatric Endoscopy.

Measuring quality in endoscopy includes the assessment of appropriateness of a procedure and the skill with which it is performed. High-quality pediatric endoscopy is safe and efficient, used effectively to make proper diagnoses, is useful for excluding other diagnoses, minimizes adverse events, and is accompanied by appropriate documentation from beginning through end of the procedure. There a...

Quality Improvement of Endoscopy Videos

We address two quality issues in endoscopy videos originating from: (a) Colour Channel Misalignment: In current endoscope systems, the colour channel images are most commonly acquired sequentially at different time instances. Whenever the camera moves significantly between acquisition instances, the colour channels get misaligned. This misalignment degrades the quality of the video due to the a...