San Diego—While much of the effort toward quality improvement in endoscopy over the past decade or so has focused on colonoscopy, it might be time to turn attention to upper endoscopy—specifically, minimizing the rate of post-endoscopy Barrett’s neoplasia.
“Just like colon lesions can be missed after colonoscopy, Barrett’s neoplasia can be missed after upper endoscopy. We know that these cancers and neoplasias are being missed at the index endoscopy,” Prateek