Acceptance of American society for gastrointestinal endoscopy’s guidelines for endoscopy reports

Background: Several studies indicate that endoscopy reports lack uniform content and terminology. Thus ASGE, ESGE, and WEO have prepared guidelines to improve the quality of endoscopy reports. However, the acceptance of such recommendations in the com-munity of endoscopists has not been assessed. Objec-tive: The aim of the present study was to determine Non-US endoscopists ’ agreement to current ASGE guidelines for endoscopy reporting and ESGE rec-ommendations for image documentation. Design: 137 endoscopists were invited to participate in this inter-net survey, covering 34 items regarding the content of the endoscopy reports. Non-responders received three e-mail reminders before the study was closed. Set-tings: A web-based survey tool developed at the Uni-versity of Oslo was used to perform this stud