Independent Heath Facility Meets Cancer Care Ontario and Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Endoscopic Procedure Wait Times While Meeting Quality Indicators: A Retrospective Review

Table 4

Quality indicators and complication rates as supported by a work group for the Cancer Care Ontario, and 2015 reported endoscopist performance statistics compared to this independent health facility (IHF) [8–10].

Quality indicators of colonoscopy	Patients included in primary analysis^1	Patients included in secondary analysis^2	Recommended	Provincial endoscopist performance, 2015
Cecal intubation rate, %	98	97	≥ 95	97 - 99
PR, screening, men %	36	45	-	34 - 50
PR, screening, women %	34	34	-	34 - 50
ADR, screening, men, %	25	40	≥ 25	-
ADR, screening, women, %	19	30	≥ 15	-
Inadequate bowel preparation, %	7	6	≤ 10	3 - 7
Withdrawal time^3 (SD)	6 (5)	6 (5)	6-7	-
Complications
Bleeding rate, %	0.0	0.0	≤ 0.1	0.1 - 0.5
Bowel perforation rate, %	0.0	0.0	≤ 0.1	0.1 - 0.8
Other rate, %	0.0	0.0	-	-

PR: polypectomy rate, ADR: adenoma detection rate, ¹all patients undergoing first-time colonoscopy referred by a primary care physician, ²all consecutive patients undergoing colonoscopy, and ³mean withdrawal time in minutes.