Quality of Barrett's surveillance in The Netherlands: a standardized review of endoscopy and pathology reports.

Objective: The quality of Barrett's surveillance relies on an adequate endoscopic inspection, obtaining a sufficient number of biopsy specimens, good communication of the endoscopic findings to the pathologist, and an accurate description of the histological findings by the pathologist. The aim of this study was to assess the quality of Barrett's surveillance in daily practice in The Netherlands.

Materials And Methods: A structured scoring list was developed to evaluate systematically the quality of endoscopy and pathology reports.