Improving Quality and Safety In Your Endoscopy Unit: Live and Virtual | October 2022-01_Keswani

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This document discusses the importance of quality in gastrointestinal endoscopy and provides guidelines for starting an endoscopy quality program. It highlights the variability in quality between providers and the impact of these differences on patient outcomes. The document also emphasizes the need for feasible measures to assess quality and how measuring quality can lead to improvement in care. Various methods to improve care, such as report cards, clinical decision support, checklists, and simulation training, are described. The document also addresses the importance of safety in endoscopy, including the use of information technology to automate safety assessment and tracking post-procedure visits. Additionally, the document explores the role of teamwork and communication in preventing errors and the need to address and report medical errors effectively. The document concludes by emphasizing the need for further research to understand and address variability in endoscopy quality and to develop more automated methods for assessing and benchmarking outcomes.

Keywords

gastrointestinal endoscopy

endoscopy quality program

provider variability

patient outcomes

feasible quality measures

improvement in care

report cards

clinical decision support

checklists

simulation training