Quality in Endoscopy. [Review]
Quality in Endoscopy. [Review]
- 2020
Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - February 2007
Quality improvement is a dynamic process that requires continuously monitoring quality indicators and benchmarking these with national and professional standards. Endoscopists have formed societal task forces to propose quality indicators and performance goals. Institutions are now incentivized by payers and value-based reimbursement agreements to have processes in place to measure, report, and act on these quality metrics. Nationwide registries, such as the Gastrointestinal Quality Improvement Consortium, are used to report quality data to these merit-based incentive payment systems. Quality improvement processes such as these are instrumental to improve patient safety, health, and satisfaction while decreasing costs and medical errors. Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
English
0039-6109
10.1016/j.suc.2020.08.008 [doi] S0039-6109(20)30104-3 [pii]
*Endoscopy, Digestive System/st [Standards]
*Practice Guidelines as Topic/st [Standards]
*Quality Improvement
Benchmarking/st [Standards]
Clinical Competence
Endoscopy/st [Standards]
Endosonography/st [Standards]
Humans
Patient Safety/st [Standards]
Quality Improvement/st [Standards]
Quality Indicators, Health Care/st [Standards]
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Surgery/Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery
Journal Article
Review
Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - February 2007
Quality improvement is a dynamic process that requires continuously monitoring quality indicators and benchmarking these with national and professional standards. Endoscopists have formed societal task forces to propose quality indicators and performance goals. Institutions are now incentivized by payers and value-based reimbursement agreements to have processes in place to measure, report, and act on these quality metrics. Nationwide registries, such as the Gastrointestinal Quality Improvement Consortium, are used to report quality data to these merit-based incentive payment systems. Quality improvement processes such as these are instrumental to improve patient safety, health, and satisfaction while decreasing costs and medical errors. Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
English
0039-6109
10.1016/j.suc.2020.08.008 [doi] S0039-6109(20)30104-3 [pii]
*Endoscopy, Digestive System/st [Standards]
*Practice Guidelines as Topic/st [Standards]
*Quality Improvement
Benchmarking/st [Standards]
Clinical Competence
Endoscopy/st [Standards]
Endosonography/st [Standards]
Humans
Patient Safety/st [Standards]
Quality Improvement/st [Standards]
Quality Indicators, Health Care/st [Standards]
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Surgery/Thoracic and Esophageal Surgery
Journal Article
Review