Quality evaluation of colonoscopy reporting and colonoscopy performance in daily clinical practice

The national colonoscopy audit: a nationwide assessment of the quality and safety of colonoscopy in the UK

“…In this study, only 50.2% of complete procedures had photographic documentation. This is well below rates reported in other series and is clearly an area in need of improvement for UK colonoscopists 15 34…”

Metachronous colorectal cancers result from missed lesions and non-compliance with surveillance

“…In a study that used administrative data of 14,064 patients from Ontario, Baxter et al 44 found that endoscopist's specialty (non-gastroenterologist) and setting (non-hospitalbased colonoscopy) were likely associated with a greater risk of postcolonoscopy CRC. In The Netherlands, the majority of colonoscopies (O80%) are performed by gastroenterologists, 47 although traditionally a significant proportion of post-CRC resection surveillance colonoscopies were performed by colorectal surgeons, which also was the case in this study, particularly in the university hospital. An additional finding of our study was that mCRCs are more likely to contain poor differentiation than solitary CRCs.…”

Adenoma Detection Rate in Colonoscopy

“…As a single-endoscopist study, we were also unable to explore the role of other endoscopist-related factors that have been described in the literature. For instance, some studies have suggested that gastroenterologists have higher ADRs compared with surgeons, 39,40 whereas others reported no significant difference, 28 especially after adjusting for the indication for colonoscopy. 38 One study showed female endoscopists had lower ADRs compared with their male counterparts.…”