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GuidelineUnited European gastroenterology journal2021

Overcoming the barriers to dissemination and implementation of quality measures for gastrointestinal endoscopy: European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) and United European Gastroenterology (UEG) position statement.

Raf Bisschops, Matthew D Rutter, Miguel Areia, Cristiano Spada, Dirk Domagk, Michel F Kaminski, Andrew Veitch, Wafaa Khanoussi, Ian M Gralnek, Cesare Hassan and 5 more

Abstract readConsensus StatementPractice Guideline
In one paragraph

Guideline in United European gastroenterology journal, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Quality indicators for upper GI endoscopy.Gastrointestinal endoscopy · 2025
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  4. Quality Indicators for Upper GI Endoscopy.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2025
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  11. Implementation of quality measures in endoscopy: Catch them young!United European gastroenterology journal · 2021
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  12. Definition of Skills and Roles of the Digestive Endoscopy Nurse: Italian Consensus of ANOTE-ANIGEA.Gastroenterology nursing : the official journal of the Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Raf BisschopsDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-9994-8226
Matthew D RutterDepartment of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of North Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, UK.
Miguel AreiaGastroenterology Department, Portuguese Oncology Institute, Coimbra, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-9787-8175
Cristiano SpadaUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Dirk DomagkDepartment of Medicine I, Joseph's Hospital Warendorf, Warendorf, Germany.
Michel F KaminskiDepartment of Gastroenterological Oncology and Department of Cancer Prevention, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland.
Andrew VeitchDepartment of Gastroenterology, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK.
Wafaa KhanoussiHepato-gastroenterology Department, Mohammed VI University Hospital, Oujda, Morocco.
Ian M GralnekEllen and Pinchas Mamber Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Emek Medical Center, Afula, Israel.
Cesare HassanEndoscopy Unit, Nuovo Regina Margherita Hospital, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-7167-1459
Helmut MessmannEndoscopy Center, University Clinic of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.
Thierry PonchonGastroenterology Division, Hôpital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France.
Paul FockensDepartment of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Axel DignassDepartment of Medicine I, Agaplesion Markus Hospita, Frankfurt, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9724-054X
Mario Dinis-RibeiroCenter for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE) has developed performance measures and established a framework for quality assessment for gastrointestinal endoscopy in Europe. Most national societies actively undertake initiatives to implement and explicitly endorse these quality indicators. Given this, the ESGE proposes that, at a national level, strong leadership should exist to disseminate and implement quality parameters. Thus, understanding the potential barriers that may vary locally is of paramount importance. The ESGE suggests that each national society should prioritise quality and standards of care in gastrointestinal endoscopy in their activities and should survey/understand which measures area local priority to their members and make measuring quality intrinsic to daily endoscopy practice.

Indexed as

Information DisseminationQuality ImprovementEndoscopy, GastrointestinalEuropeGastroenterologyHumansPatient-Centered CareQuality Indicators, Health CareSocieties, Medicalendoscopy servicepatient outcomeperformance measuresqualityquality indicatorunderperformance

Identifiers

PMID33323062
PMCPMC8259235

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