Quality indicators for colonoscopy procedures: a prospective multicentre method for endoscopy units.

Background And Aims: Healthcare professionals are required to conduct quality control of endoscopy procedures, and yet there is no standardised method for assessing quality. The topic of the present study was to validate the applicability of the procedure in daily practice, giving physicians the ability to define areas for continuous quality improvement.

Methods: In ten endoscopy units in France, 200 patients per centre undergoing colonoscopy were enrolled in the study.

Incidence and severity of non alcoholic and non biliary pancreatitis in a gastroenterology department.

Aims: Etiological investigations proposed for patients with acute pancreatitis have been evolving considerably these past few years, significantly limiting the number of cases labeled idiopathic. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of non alcoholic non biliary pancreatitis and identify causes, comparing severity by etiology.

Patient And Methods: This retrospective analysis included 108 patients managed from October 1996 to April 2005.