Real-life experience to improve endoscopy outcomes: optimising teamwork and metrics

The degree of patient co-morbidity is well recognised as significant contributor to the outcome of patients presenting with an upper gastrointestinal bleed (UGIB). In this edition of Frontline Gastroenterology Taha et al1 have published a single centre series of 2669 patients over 15 years which confirms the impression of frontline endoscopists that the patients they are seeing are getting increasingly more complex and more unwell. They also suggest that the introduction of a multidisciplinary approach for this growing complexity of case-mix has resulted in improved outcomes. The journal has published several high quality articles looking at provision of UGIB services, and this paper adds to that in helping define what a multidisciplinary approach can bring to this common problem.

We have also published a series of articles on quality improvements in colonoscopy, …