ACG, ASGE Issue New Quality Indicators for Capsule Endoscopy, Deep Enteroscopy
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The first set of comprehensive quality indicators have been issued for capsule endoscopy and deep enteroscopy by a joint task force of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. The expert panel of seven gastroenterologists published a paper on the quality indicators simultaneously in the American Journal of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
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@gerger Capsule endoscopy and deep enteroscopy are long overdue for this set of quality indicators. There is much variability across the country as to when the procedures are implemented and how they are performed. The relative novelty of these procedures explains the delay in developing quality indicators, said Semrad, a professor of medicine and director of adult clinical nutrition and small bowel disease at University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. She noted that the main barrier to creating quality indicators was the lack of rigorous randomized controlled clinical trials to guide practice and therapy.