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Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Healthcare professionals are required to conduct quality control of endoscopy procedures, and yet there is no standardised method for assessing quality. The topic of the present study was to validate the applicability of the procedure in daily practice, giving physicians the abi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324486/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22509267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033957 |
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author | Coriat, Romain Lecler, Augustin Lamarque, Dominique Deyra, Jacques Roche, Hervé Nizou, Catherine Berretta, Olivier Mesnard, Bruno Bouygues, Martin Soupison, Alain Monnin, Jean-Luc Podevin, Philippe Cassaz, Carole Sautereau, Denis Prat, Frédéric Chaussade, Stanislas |
author_facet | Coriat, Romain Lecler, Augustin Lamarque, Dominique Deyra, Jacques Roche, Hervé Nizou, Catherine Berretta, Olivier Mesnard, Bruno Bouygues, Martin Soupison, Alain Monnin, Jean-Luc Podevin, Philippe Cassaz, Carole Sautereau, Denis Prat, Frédéric Chaussade, Stanislas |
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description | BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Healthcare professionals are required to conduct quality control of endoscopy procedures, and yet there is no standardised method for assessing quality. The topic of the present study was to validate the applicability of the procedure in daily practice, giving physicians the ability to define areas for continuous quality improvement. METHODS: In ten endoscopy units in France, 200 patients per centre undergoing colonoscopy were enrolled in the study. An evaluation was carried out based on a prospectively developed checklist of 10 quality-control indicators including five dependent upon and five independent of the colonoscopy procedure. RESULTS: Of the 2000 procedures, 30% were done at general hospitals, 20% at university hospitals, and 50% in private practices. The colonoscopies were carried out for a valid indication for 95.9% (range 92.5–100). Colon preparation was insufficient in 3.7% (range 1–10.5). Colonoscopies were successful in 95.3% (range 81–99). Adenoma detection rate was 0.31 (range 0.17–0.45) in successful colonoscopies. CONCLUSION: This tool for evaluating the quality of colonoscopy procedures in healthcare units is based on standard endoscopy and patient criteria. It is an easy and feasible procedure giving the ability to detect suboptimal practice and differences between endoscopy-units. It will enable individual units to assess the quality of their colonoscopy techniques. |
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spelling | pubmed-33244862012-04-16 Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units Coriat, Romain Lecler, Augustin Lamarque, Dominique Deyra, Jacques Roche, Hervé Nizou, Catherine Berretta, Olivier Mesnard, Bruno Bouygues, Martin Soupison, Alain Monnin, Jean-Luc Podevin, Philippe Cassaz, Carole Sautereau, Denis Prat, Frédéric Chaussade, Stanislas PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Healthcare professionals are required to conduct quality control of endoscopy procedures, and yet there is no standardised method for assessing quality. The topic of the present study was to validate the applicability of the procedure in daily practice, giving physicians the ability to define areas for continuous quality improvement. METHODS: In ten endoscopy units in France, 200 patients per centre undergoing colonoscopy were enrolled in the study. An evaluation was carried out based on a prospectively developed checklist of 10 quality-control indicators including five dependent upon and five independent of the colonoscopy procedure. RESULTS: Of the 2000 procedures, 30% were done at general hospitals, 20% at university hospitals, and 50% in private practices. The colonoscopies were carried out for a valid indication for 95.9% (range 92.5–100). Colon preparation was insufficient in 3.7% (range 1–10.5). Colonoscopies were successful in 95.3% (range 81–99). Adenoma detection rate was 0.31 (range 0.17–0.45) in successful colonoscopies. CONCLUSION: This tool for evaluating the quality of colonoscopy procedures in healthcare units is based on standard endoscopy and patient criteria. It is an easy and feasible procedure giving the ability to detect suboptimal practice and differences between endoscopy-units. It will enable individual units to assess the quality of their colonoscopy techniques. Public Library of Science 2012-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3324486/ /pubmed/22509267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033957 Text en Coriat et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Coriat, Romain Lecler, Augustin Lamarque, Dominique Deyra, Jacques Roche, Hervé Nizou, Catherine Berretta, Olivier Mesnard, Bruno Bouygues, Martin Soupison, Alain Monnin, Jean-Luc Podevin, Philippe Cassaz, Carole Sautereau, Denis Prat, Frédéric Chaussade, Stanislas Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units |
title | Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units |
title_full | Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units |
title_fullStr | Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units |
title_full_unstemmed | Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units |
title_short | Quality Indicators for Colonoscopy Procedures: A Prospective Multicentre Method for Endoscopy Units |
title_sort | quality indicators for colonoscopy procedures: a prospective multicentre method for endoscopy units |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324486/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22509267 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033957 |
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