Prospective peer-review audit of paediatric upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Aim: To describe the findings of paediatric upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (UGE) and to reduce the rate of normal findings in children undergoing diagnostic UGE.

Methods: Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy were performed at a single tertiary referral children's hospital over a 3-year period by four endoscopists. Patients were subgrouped into diagnostic categories (recurrent abdominal pain syndrome (RAP), oesophagitis, coeliac disease and enteropathy/inflammatory bowel disease) and endoscopists recorded their clinical diagnosis as above before each procedure.