The registry is intended to help endoscopists and endoscopy facilities to benchmark themselves. Eighty-four data fields for colonoscopy are collected and 10 quality measures are benchmarked.
GIQuIC is a joint initiative of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
The growth rate for the registry has increased to almost 2,000 new cases per week in recent months.
“Every additional user makes the registry more valuable for everyone else who uses it,” said Irving Pike , MD, president of the GIQuIC board, in the release. “As the data accumulates, the potential value of GIQuIC, not only as a national benchmarking tool, but also as a research database, grows.”
The registry was established by Sentara Healthcare in 2006. In 2009, ACG and ASGE took over the project, established GIQuIC, a non-profit educational and scientific organization, and rolled the registry out nationally.
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