James W Saxton,Stephanie SherUnger
James W Saxton
Quality assurance data - essential to successful efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare - is more important than ever in today's environment. Robust quality assurance activities are required to achieve the accreditation...
Quality assurance of training [0.03%]
培训质量管理
Paul Dunckley,Grace Elta
Paul Dunckley
Over the last decade there have been significant improvements in the standards of training across both the UK and US. Improvements in the UK have been catalysed by the need for high quality colonoscopy within the bowel cancer screening prog...
Development of quality measures for monitoring and improving care in gastroenterology [0.03%]
胃肠病学质量度量的发展、监测和改善护理
Katharine A Germansky,Daniel A Leffler
Katharine A Germansky
Over the past decade, most quality assurance (QA) efforts in gastroenterology have been aimed at endoscopy. Endoscopic quality improvement was the rational area to begin QA work in gastroenterology due to the relatively acute nature of comp...
Ulrike Beilenhoff,Christiane S Neumann
Ulrike Beilenhoff
Since the 1960s quality assurance has become an integral part of medicine and nursing. The aims of quality assurance cover patient and staff safety and satisfaction, economical factors and the implementation of health care policy. Endoscopy...
John F Stebbing
John F Stebbing
This chapter reflects on how England has led the world in service development and quality assurance of endoscopy. It draws out themes of leadership, strategic vision and organisational culture. It emphasises the pivotal importance of focuss...
Bret T Petersen
Bret T Petersen
Quality assurance for gastrointestinal endoscopy addresses numerous aspects of unit management and patient care. Quality measures pertinent to patient care delivered by the individual endoscopist include optimal practices in the pre-procedu...
Vincent de Jonge,Jerome Sint Nicolaas,Monique E van Leerdam et al.
Vincent de Jonge et al.
This chapter aims to describe the origin and current status of quality assurance (QA) in health care and to provide a background of similar developments in other industries, which have provided a major impetus for QA initiatives in health c...
Peter B Cotton,Michael Bretthauer
Peter B Cotton
Séverine Vermeire
Séverine Vermeire
The volume of research undertaken on the genetic susceptibility of inflammatory bowel diseases has been tremendous. International collaborative efforts which initiated in 1997 and have not stopped since, led to the identification at present...
M M H Claessen,P D Siersema,F P Vleggaar
M M H Claessen
Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk of developing colorectal cancer (CRC). Risk factors are extent and severity of colonic inflammation, concurrent primary sclerosing cholangitis, and a positive family hist...