Paula Leão Moreira, Axel Dignass, Maria Manuela Estevinho, Francisco Portal, João Mendes, Mafalda Santiago, Walter Reinisch, Bruce E Sands, Geert D'Haens, Gerassimos J Mantzaris, Silvio Danese, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Vipul Jairath, Iris Dotan, Fernando Magro
{"title":"Assessment of outcomes in Crohn's disease: A systematic review of randomized clinical trials to inform a multiple outcome framework.","authors":"Paula Leão Moreira, Axel Dignass, Maria Manuela Estevinho, Francisco Portal, João Mendes, Mafalda Santiago, Walter Reinisch, Bruce E Sands, Geert D'Haens, Gerassimos J Mantzaris, Silvio Danese, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Vipul Jairath, Iris Dotan, Fernando Magro","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12679","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12679","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Longstanding disease control in Crohn's disease (CD) is challenging and requires understanding treatment efficacy and outcomes assessment. With multiple novel therapeutic options, rigorous evaluation of outcomes in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is crucial to inform clinical practice. This study systematically reviewed RCTs focusing on CD outcomes to elucidate the breadth and depth of reported outcomes and measurement instruments. A systematic search was conducted on MEDLINE and Scopus for RCTs published from 1 January 2000 to 31 January 2023. Eligible studies included full-text articles with at least 50 adult CD patients. Primary and secondary outcomes, along with their measurement instruments, were categorized according to the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Filter 2.1 framework. From 88 included studies, 393 outcomes were analyzed. Clinical outcomes, such as clinical remission and response, were the most prevalent (50.6%); biomarkers (11.5%) and patient-reported outcomes (10.2%) were also assessed. Other outcomes included disease behavior and complications (2%), endoscopy (10.4%), histology (0.5%), radiology (1.3%), healthcare utilization (3.8%), and therapy-related safety (6.9%). Composite outcomes showed an increasing trend, reflecting a shift toward comprehensive evaluations. Coprimary endpoints, including clinical symptoms and mucosal inflammation, were reported in 21 of 88 studies. This review highlights the evolving landscape of outcome assessment in CD RCTs, emphasizing the increasing complexity of outcomes. The prominence of composite outcomes underscores efforts to capture the multidimensional nature of CD. These findings will inform the second stage of a two-round e-Delphi aimed at prioritizing key domains and outcomes for developing a multiple-component outcome for RCTs in CD research.</p>","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1280-1291"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578837/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142401457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jian Wan, Jun Shen, Jie Zhong, Wensong Ge, Yinglei Miao, Xiaolan Zhang, Zhonghui Wen, Yufang Wang, Jie Liang, Kaichun Wu
{"title":"Natural course of ulcerative colitis in China: Differences from the West?","authors":"Jian Wan, Jun Shen, Jie Zhong, Wensong Ge, Yinglei Miao, Xiaolan Zhang, Zhonghui Wen, Yufang Wang, Jie Liang, Kaichun Wu","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12634","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12634","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background and aims: </strong>Whether the natural course of ulcerative colitis (UC) in mainland China is similar or different from that in Western countries is unknown, and data on it is limited. We aimed to provide a comprehensive description of the natural course of UC in China and compare it with Western UC patients.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Based on a prospective Chinese nationwide registry of consecutive patients with inflammatory bowel diseases, the medical treatments and natural history of UC were described in detail, including disease extension, surgery, and neoplasia. The Cox regression model was used to identify factors associated with poor outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1081 UC patients were included with a median follow-up duration of 5.3 years. The overall cumulative exposure was 99.1% to 5-aminosalicylic acids, 52.1% to corticosteroids, 25.6% to immunomodulators, and 15.4% to biologics. Disease extent at diagnosis was proctitis in 26.9%, left-sided colitis in 34.8%, and extensive colitis in 38.3%. Of 667 patients with proctitis and left-sided colitis, 380 (57.0%) experienced disease extent progression. A total of 58 (5.4%) UC patients underwent colectomy, demonstrating cumulative proportions of surgery at 1, 5, and 10 years after diagnosis of 0.6%, 3.4%, and 8.2%, respectively. In addition, 23 (2.1%) UC patients were diagnosed with neoplasia, demonstrating cumulative proportions of neoplasia at 1, 5, and 10 years after diagnosis of 0.5%, 1.0%, and 3.5%, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Chinese UC patients had similar cumulative proportions of exposure to IBD-specific treatments but a lower surgical rate than patients in Western countries, indicating a different natural course, and close monitoring needs for UC in China. However, these results must be confirmed in population-based studies because the hospital-based cohort in our study might lead to selection bias.</p>","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1167-1178"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578846/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141731433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fecal calprotectin: A promising readily available tool associated with outcome in patients with cirrhosis.","authors":"Florent Artru","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12640","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ueg2.12640","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tommaso Lorenzo Parigi, Virginia Solitano, Alessandro Armuzzi, Manuel Barreiro de Acosta, Jake Begun, Shomron Ben-Horin, Luc Biedermann, Jean-Frederic Colombel, Axel Dignass, Mathurin Fumery, Subrata Ghosh, Taku Kobayashi, Edouard Louis, Fernando Magro, Remo Panaccione, Astrid Rausch, Walter Reinisch, Christian Selinger, Vipul Jairath, Silvio Danese, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet
{"title":"Defining mucosal healing in randomized controlled trials of inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review and future perspective.","authors":"Tommaso Lorenzo Parigi, Virginia Solitano, Alessandro Armuzzi, Manuel Barreiro de Acosta, Jake Begun, Shomron Ben-Horin, Luc Biedermann, Jean-Frederic Colombel, Axel Dignass, Mathurin Fumery, Subrata Ghosh, Taku Kobayashi, Edouard Louis, Fernando Magro, Remo Panaccione, Astrid Rausch, Walter Reinisch, Christian Selinger, Vipul Jairath, Silvio Danese, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12671","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12671","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mucosal healing (MH) is an established treatment goal in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, various definitions of MH exist. We aimed to identify how MH is defined in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and the Cochrane library from inception to December 2023 for phase 2 and 3 RCTs of advanced therapies in IBD.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>One hundred forty-four studies were included, 72 in UC and 72 in CD, published between 1997 and 2023. In UC, 64% (46/72) RCTs reported MH as an endpoint. 12 definitions of MH were found, from endoscopic assessment alone (35/46; 76%) to the more recent combination of histology and endoscopy (10/46; 22%). 96% (44/46) of studies used the Mayo Endoscopic Subscore. In CD, reporting of MH lagged behind UC, with only 12% (9/72) of trials specifically defining MH as an endpoint, 7 as \"absence of ulceration,\" 2 as Simplified Endoscopic Score for CD score ≤2 or 0. Histological assessment was performed in 3 RCTs of CD. Centralized reading of endoscopy was used in 48% (35/72) of RCTs of UC and 22% (16/72) of CD. Only 1 RCT included transmural healing as an endpoint.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A standard definition of MH in IBD is lacking. Definitions have evolved particularly in UC, which now includes the addition of histological evaluation. Transmural healing holds promise as a future target in CD. We support a greater standardization of definitions as we expect endpoints to become increasingly stringent and multimodal with computers automating the assessment.</p>","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1266-1279"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578850/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elisabeth Maurer, Bettina Lehman, Elvira Matthäi, Ulrike Denzer, Jens Figiel, Moritz Jesinghaus, Emily P Slater, Ulrich Stefenelli, Thomas M Gress, Detlef K Bartsch
{"title":"Pancreatic cancer screening is effective in individuals at risk with predisposing germline gene variants, but not in gene variant-negative familial pancreatic cancer families.","authors":"Elisabeth Maurer, Bettina Lehman, Elvira Matthäi, Ulrike Denzer, Jens Figiel, Moritz Jesinghaus, Emily P Slater, Ulrich Stefenelli, Thomas M Gress, Detlef K Bartsch","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12631","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12631","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the diagnostic yield of pancreatic cancer screening in individuals at risk (IAR) from familial pancreatic cancer (FPC) families with respect to the presence or absence of pathogenic germline variants predisposing to pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC).</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>In a 20 years period, IAR from FPC families were enrolled in a prospective screening program of the national case collection for FPC of Germany, including magnet resonance imaging (MRI) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS). The diagnostic yield was analyzed regarding significant pancreatic lesions such as PDAC, high-grade pancreatic-intraepithelial-neoplasia (PanIN3) and intraductal-papillary-mucinous-neoplasia (IPMN) with high-grade dysplasia. Screening results were compared between carriers of pathogenic variants and variant-negative IAR.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>337 IAR, including 74 (22%) variant-carriers and 263 IAR of variant-negative FPC families (mean age 49; standard deviation [SD] + 8.9) were followed 64 (SD + 55) months. IAR underwent 5.1 (SD + 3.9) screening visits with 1733 MRI (5.1,SD + 3.9 per IAR) and 728 EUS (2.2,SD + 1.7 per IAR). In 12 (4%) cases, significant pancreatic lesions were detected, including 4 PDAC, 3 PanIN3 and 5 high-grade IPMN. Three of 4 IAR with PDAC died after a mean of 27 months postoperatively, and one IAR is alive without evidence of disease after 31 months. The diagnostic yield for significant lesions was 13.5% (10/74) for variant carriers compared to 0.8% (2/263) for IAR of variant-negative FPC families (p < 0.001). Logistic regression analysis revealed that a negative variant status was almost always accompanied by the absence of a significant lesion over time with a negative predictive value of 99.2% (95% CI 97.3%-99.9%).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The diagnostic yield seems to justify PDAC screening in IAR of FPC-families with pathogenic germline variants in PDAC predisposing genes, not in IAR of variant-negative families.</p>","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1211-1221"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578844/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141731434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricio Medel-Jara, Diego Reyes Placencia, Eduardo Fuentes-López, Oscar Corsi, Gonzalo Latorre, Rosario Antón, Elena Jiménez, Ana Miralles-Marco, Carmelo Caballero, Hugo Boggino, Daniel Cantero, Rita Barros, João Santos-Antunes, Marc Díez, Luis A Quiñones, Erick Riquelme, Antonio Rollán, Leslie C Cerpa, Ivania Valdés, Olga P Nyssen, Leticia Moreira, Javier P Gisbert, M Constanza Camargo, Nayeli Ortiz-Olvera, Alberto M Leon-Takahashi, Erika Ruiz-Garcia, Edith A Fernández-Figueroa, Marcelo Garrido, Gareth I Owen, Andrés Cervantes, Tania Fleitas, Arnoldo Riquelme
{"title":"Quadruple therapies show a higher eradication rate compared to standard triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection within the LEGACy consortium. A multicenter observational study in European and Latin American countries.","authors":"Patricio Medel-Jara, Diego Reyes Placencia, Eduardo Fuentes-López, Oscar Corsi, Gonzalo Latorre, Rosario Antón, Elena Jiménez, Ana Miralles-Marco, Carmelo Caballero, Hugo Boggino, Daniel Cantero, Rita Barros, João Santos-Antunes, Marc Díez, Luis A Quiñones, Erick Riquelme, Antonio Rollán, Leslie C Cerpa, Ivania Valdés, Olga P Nyssen, Leticia Moreira, Javier P Gisbert, M Constanza Camargo, Nayeli Ortiz-Olvera, Alberto M Leon-Takahashi, Erika Ruiz-Garcia, Edith A Fernández-Figueroa, Marcelo Garrido, Gareth I Owen, Andrés Cervantes, Tania Fleitas, Arnoldo Riquelme","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12605","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide. Helicobacter pylori is the primary cause of GC; therefore, its eradication reduces the risk of developing this neoplasia. There is extensive evidence regarding quadruple therapy with relevance to the European population. However, in Latin America, data are scarce. Furthermore, there is limited information about the eradication rates achieved by antibiotic schemes in European and Latin American populations.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare the effectiveness of standard triple therapy (STT), quadruple concomitant therapy (QCT), and bismuth quadruple therapy (QBT) in six centers in Europe and Latin America.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A retrospective study was carried out based on the LEGACy registry from 2017 to 2022. Data from adult patients recruited in Portugal, Spain, Chile, Mexico, and Paraguay with confirmed H. pylori infection who received eradication therapy and confirmatory tests at least 1 month apart were included. Treatment success by each scheme was compared using a mixed multilevel Poisson regression, adjusting for patient sex and age, together with country-specific variables, including prevalence of H. pylori antibiotic resistance (clarithromycin, metronidazole, and amoxicillin), and CYP2C19 polymorphisms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>772 patients were incorporated (64.64% females; mean age of 52.93 years). The total H. pylori eradication rates were 75.20% (255/339) with STT, 88.70% (159/178) with QCT, and 91.30% (191/209) with QBT. Both quadruple therapies (QCT-QBT) showed significantly higher eradication rates compared with STT, with an adjusted incidence risk ratio (IRR) of 1.25 (p: <0.05); and 1.24 (p: <0.05), respectively. The antibiotic-resistance prevalence by country, but not the prevalence of CYP2C19 polymorphism, showed a statistically significant impact on eradication success.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Both QCT and QBT are superior to STT for H. pylori eradication when adjusted for country-specific antibiotic resistance and CYP2C19 polymorphism in a sample of individuals residing in five countries within two continents.</p>","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1190-1199"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578845/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141876074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selection of individuals who may benefit from pancreatic cancer surveillance.","authors":"Marco J Bruno","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12660","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ueg2.12660","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142558797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elena De Cristofaro, Jérôme Rivory, Tanguy Fenouil, Mathieu Pioche
{"title":"A rare case of squamous cell carcinoma originating from esophageal papilloma.","authors":"Elena De Cristofaro, Jérôme Rivory, Tanguy Fenouil, Mathieu Pioche","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12639","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12639","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1306-1307"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578843/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142475867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alejandro Martínez-Roca, Joaquín Cubiella, Anabel García-Heredia, David Guill-Berbegal, Sandra Baile-Maxía, Carolina Mangas-Sanjuán, Noelia Sala-Miquel, Lucía Madero-Velazquez, Cristina Alenda, Pedro Zapater, Clara González-Núñez, Agueda Iglesias-Gómez, Laura Codesido-Prado, Astrid Díez-Martín, Michal F Kaminski, Rune Erichsen, Hans-Olov Adami, Monika Ferlitsch, María Pellisé, Øyvind Holme, Evelien Dekker, Michael Bretthauer, Rodrigo Jover
{"title":"Prediction of metachronous advanced colorectal neoplasia by KRAS mutation in polyps.","authors":"Alejandro Martínez-Roca, Joaquín Cubiella, Anabel García-Heredia, David Guill-Berbegal, Sandra Baile-Maxía, Carolina Mangas-Sanjuán, Noelia Sala-Miquel, Lucía Madero-Velazquez, Cristina Alenda, Pedro Zapater, Clara González-Núñez, Agueda Iglesias-Gómez, Laura Codesido-Prado, Astrid Díez-Martín, Michal F Kaminski, Rune Erichsen, Hans-Olov Adami, Monika Ferlitsch, María Pellisé, Øyvind Holme, Evelien Dekker, Michael Bretthauer, Rodrigo Jover","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12667","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12667","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The potential of molecular markers in the removed polys as reliable predictors of metachronous lesions is still uncertain.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>Our aim was to evaluate the role of somatic mutations in KRAS in polyps of patients with high-risk adenomas to predict the risk of advanced polyps or colorectal cancer (CRC) within 3 years.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 518 patients were prospectively enrolled. The included patients had adenomas ≥10 mm, high-grade dysplasia, villous component or ≥3 more adenomas at baseline and were scheduled to undergo surveillance colonoscopy at 3 years ± 6 months. Somatic KRAS mutation was performed on 1189 polyps collected from these patients. At surveillance, advanced lesions were defined as adenomas with a size of ≥10 mm. High-grade dysplasia or villous component, serrated polyps ≥10 mm or with dysplasia or CRC.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>At baseline, 81 patients (15.6%) had KRAS mutations in at least one polyp. Patients with KRAS mutated polyps had more frequent villous histological lesions and size ≥20 mm. In the multivariate analysis, adjusted for age and sex, only age (odds ratios [OR], 1.06; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.02-1.09; p < 0.001), ≥5 adenomas (OR, 3.92; 95% CI, 1.96-7.82), and KRAS mutation (OR, 2.54; 95% CI, 1.48-4.34; p < 0.01) were independently associated with the development of advanced lesions at surveillance.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our results show that, in patients with high-risk adenomas, the presence of somatic mutations in KRAS is an independent risk factor for the development of advanced metachronous polyps.</p>","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1179-1189"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142475872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F Theunissen, P C J Ter Borg, R J T Ouwendijk, M J Bruno, P D Siersema
{"title":"Overview of a national endoscopy database: The Trans.IT database and its impact on data registration quality.","authors":"F Theunissen, P C J Ter Borg, R J T Ouwendijk, M J Bruno, P D Siersema","doi":"10.1002/ueg2.12669","DOIUrl":"10.1002/ueg2.12669","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Trans.IT database is a national gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy database developed in 2012. It automatically collects anonymous data from GI endoscopy procedures in a centralized database. All endoscopists use a structured reporting tool for uniform data collection. In this study, we aim to provide an overview of the database and to evaluate its impact on data registration quality.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used all ERCPs, colonoscopies and colorectal cancer (CRC)-screening colonoscopies performed between 2016 and 2020. We excluded centers joining after 2016 and patients below age 18. Data registration quality for ERCPs included completeness of data for: intention of ERCP, Schutz score, ASA classification, papillary status (virgin or previous sphincterotomy), cannulation (success or failure to cannulate the desired duct) and procedural success. For colonoscopies: indication, ASA-classification, Boston Bowel Preparation Score (BBPS), cecal intubation, polyp detection rate (PDR). For CRC-screening colonoscopies, ASA-classification, BBPS, cecal intubation, PDR and adenoma detection rate (ADR).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 14,156 ERCPs, 150,962 colonoscopies and 37,199 colorectal cancer screening colonoscopies were included in our analysis. For ERCPs, registration of procedural intention, Schutz score, ASA classification, papillary status, cannulation and procedural success improved from 34.9%, 32.7%, 72.6%, 36.5%, 34.6%, 27.2% in 2016, to 86.4%, 84.6%, 97.4%, 86.4%, 82.1%, 84.0%, respectively, in 2020. For non-screening colonoscopies, registration of indication, ASA classification, BBPS, cecal intubation and PDR improved from 40.4%, 60.5%, 47.6%, 69.8% and 32.3% in 2016 to 90.3%, 88.9%, 59.8%, 79.1% and 39.1%, respectively, in 2020. For CRC-cancer screening colonoscopy registration equaled outcome, PDR and ADR changed from 74.7% to 63.6% in 2016 to 66.3% and 53.8% in 2020, respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The quality of endoscopy data registration has consistently improved over the years by using the Trans.IT database. This is most likely the result of feedback to performing endoscopists to review performance in real-time online and progressive awareness of quality of data registration.</p>","PeriodicalId":23444,"journal":{"name":"United European Gastroenterology Journal","volume":" ","pages":"1200-1210"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11578836/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142354753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}