Background
Working parties of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Quality
Committee recently published a proposed new lexicon for adverse events and a separate
extensive review of risk factors. The complexity of procedures also affects outcomes.
Objective
To establish a system for grading the complexity of endoscopic procedures.
Design
Voting on levels 1 (easiest) to 4 (most difficult) on a list of possible procedures
and contexts.
Setting
Community and academic gastroenterologists in the United States, Canada, and Britain.
Main Outcome Measurements
Median scores of votes cast.
Results
Consensus list of levels 1 through 4 contexts and procedures.
Limitations
Eminence rather than evidence based.
Conclusions
A consensus list was developed for comments and testing to complement the proposed
lexicons for adverse events and risk factors.
Abbreviation:
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: March 07, 2011
Received in revised form:
December 29,
2010
Received:
November 5,
2010
Footnotes
DISCLOSURE: All authors disclosed no financial relationships relevant to this publication.
See CME section; p. 1015
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© 2011 American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
