Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy is a field that currently lacks validated quality markers, but a new study proposes that the rate at which an operator takes biopsies could serve as one such measure.
The higher a clinician’s endoscopy biopsy rate (EBR)—the ratio of endoscopic procedures with at least one biopsy to all performed by the same physician—the higher the chance of detecting premalignant gastric conditions and the lower the likelihood of missing gastric cancers, the