Endoscopists participating in the Austrian quality assurance program offered high quality screening colonoscopy regardless of their specialty and setting. The implementation of a standardized quality program is therefore a decisive factor in quality improvement of screening colonoscopy.
This article has an accompanying continuing medical education activity, also eligible for MOC credit, on page e19. Learning Objective: Upon completion of this CME activity successful learners will be able to identify limitations of the metrics used to evaluate colonoscopy performance and describe how current metrics relate to interval colorectal cancer.
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