Barrett's oesophagus: an audit of surveillance over a 17-year period.

Objective: To audit whether our patients with Barrett's oesophagus (BO) enter into our endoscopic surveillance programme and whether they continue with it after entry. We have determined the incidence of oesophageal adenocarcinoma among our surveyed patients.

Design: We retrospectively audited prospectively collected data from our BO surveillance programme over the years 1987-2003.