Colonoscopy quality: if you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.

Gastrointest Endosc

Department of Cancer Prevention and Department of Oncological Gastroenterology, The Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Warsaw, Poland; Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Oncology, Medical Center for Postgraduate Education, Warsaw, Poland; Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Published: July 2020

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