Barrett's esophagus surveillance: When, how often, does it work? [0.03%]
巴雷特食管监测：从什么时候开始？多长时间进行一次？是否有效？
Bryson W Katona,Gary W Falk
Bryson W Katona
Barrett's esophagus is a well-known risk factor for the development of esophageal adenocarcinoma. Current practice guidelines recommend endoscopic surveillance of patients with Barrett's esophagus in an attempt to detect cancer at an early ...
Stuart Jon Spechler
Stuart Jon Spechler
Barrett's esophagus has been defined conceptually as the condition in which any extent of metaplastic columnar epithelium that predisposes to cancer development replaces the stratified squamous epithelium that normally lines the distal esop...
John I Allen
John I Allen
Gastroenterologists who understand future reimbursement and health care trends are already preparing their practice infrastructure to meet new challenges of transparency and bundled payments. Market-based pressures derived from quality and ...
Ann G Zauber
Ann G Zauber
This article presents a cost-effectiveness analysis of colorectal cancer screening tests that have been recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force, American Cancer Society US Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cance...
Defining an episode of care for colonoscopy: work of the High Value Health Care Project characterizing episodes and costs of care [0.03%]
界定结肠镜检查的就诊过程：高质量医疗保健项目的工作成果——定义诊疗过程及成本
Niall J Brennan,Todd A Lee,Adam S Wilk et al.
Niall J Brennan et al.
Working with a group of key stakeholders, the authors developed an episode-based resource use measure focused on the use of colonoscopy. This measure is intended to identify differences in health care resource use in a short time frame surr...
Judith R Logan,David A Lieberman
Judith R Logan
Administrative databases, registries, and clinical databases are designed for different purposes and therefore have different advantages and disadvantages in providing data for enhancing quality. Administrative databases provide the advanta...
Piet C de Groen
Piet C de Groen
Colorectal cancer is the second major cause of cancer-related death in the United States. The long time involved in progression of mucosal dysplasia from a small polyp to an invasive cancer and the ability to image the colon mucosa are feat...
Jason E Williams,Douglas O Faigel
Jason E Williams
Quality improvement of colonoscopy continues to be an important topic. This effort begins with creating detailed and accurate colonoscopy reports. Quality indicators are measurable endpoints that may be used in quality assurance and improve...
Efficacy and effectiveness of colonoscopy: how do we bridge the gap? [0.03%]
结肠镜筛查的效果与实际应用效益：我们如何缩小差距？
David G Hewett,Charles J Kahi,Douglas K Rex
David G Hewett
Colonoscopy is sometimes considered the preferred colorectal cancer screening modality, yet this modality may be subject to variation in operator performance more than any other screening test. Failures of colonoscopy to consistently detect...