{"title":"Colonoscopy: measuring and improving quality","authors":"K. Pettengell","doi":"10.4314/SAGR.V5I3.30740","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The benefits of therapeutic and diagnostic colonoscopy, which are undoubted, can only be fully realized when the procedure is performed at optimal levels of quality. Unfortunately this is not always the case. Quality, however, is difficult to define and measure but without attempts to do both, improvement is well nigh impossible.","PeriodicalId":39144,"journal":{"name":"South African Gastroenterology Review","volume":"5 1","pages":"24-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"South African Gastroenterology Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4314/SAGR.V5I3.30740","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The benefits of therapeutic and diagnostic colonoscopy, which are undoubted, can only be fully realized when the procedure is performed at optimal levels of quality. Unfortunately this is not always the case. Quality, however, is difficult to define and measure but without attempts to do both, improvement is well nigh impossible.