How to track and register adverse events related to gastrointestinal endoscopy

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Supervisors

Moreels, Tom

Faculty

Faculté de médecine et médecine dentaire

Degree label

Master [180] en médecine

Abstract

Gastrointestinal endoscopic procedures have evolved significantly in the last fifty years revolutionising the whole approach to the diagnostic and therapeutic spheres of medicine. Direct vision of the bowel wall has supplanted radiographic imaging and allowed tissue sampling. Therapeutic applications have in several cases bypassed the need for open surgery. Despite the great advantages of using natural portals of access to the bowel, adverse events may occur following endoscopy. Tracking adverse events is an objective in every realm of quality medicine. For this reason, quality indicators have been widely accepted as an ideal benchmark for measurement of quality scores. Our study design was aimed at tracking adverse events following endoscopy procedures and carried out at the University Hospital “Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc” from February to April 2016. The two methods used were voluntary reporting and parallel retrospective data collection to allow capture of all adverse events and comparison of the two methods. The total number of endoscopic procedures reviewed reached in three months amounted to 2668.