Volume 85 - 2022 - Fasc.3 - Editorial
Essential reading from the editor’s desk
Quality measures are becoming increasingly important
in clinical practice, not only as a monitoring tool in the
hospital for internal quality purposes but more and more
also in communication with the general community as
publicly available indicators of quality (1-3). Especially
for technical subspecialties such as endoscopy, it is key
that outcome and complications are closely monitored.
This is also reflected in a multitude of quality initiatives
of national and international endoscopy societies (4). In
the current edition of the Acta, Moreels and colleagues
evaluated the accuracy of self-reported adverse events
by the endoscopists by comparing it to a retrospective
analysis of the medical records (5). The total adverse
events rate was 1.95% with only half of the events being
voluntarily reported by the endoscopist. Even if 2/3 of the
unreported events were mild, this important study still
highlights that the current reporting methods are flawed
and a more user-friendly ad-hoc registration system,
integrated in the electronic medical records, should be
developed.
