Barriers to Colonoscopy Quality Measurement in Rural Wisconsin.

Autor:	Schumacher JR; Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin., Weiss JM; Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin., Ties JS; St. Croix Regional Medical Center, St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin., Kitowski NJ; Black River Memorial Hospital, Black River Falls, Wisconsin., Levin JP; Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, Madison, Wisconsin., Gigot M; Wisconsin Statewide Health Information Network, Madison, Wisconsin., May JC; Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.; Wisconsin Surgical Society, Madison, Wisconsin., Pung DR; Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin., Lawson EH; Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Diseases of the colon and rectum [Dis Colon Rectum] 2024 Nov 12. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 12.
DOI:	10.1097/DCR.0000000000003528
Abstrakt:	Background: Patients in rural areas have reduced colonoscopy access, which is critical for colorectal cancer prevention. General surgeons perform most colonoscopies in rural areas. The Surgical Collaborative of Wisconsin's Rural Task Force identified colonoscopy as a high priority initiative due to high volume and lack of quality measure access, both necessary for assessing and improving performance. Objective: Assess the capacity for colonoscopy quality measurement and improvement in rural Wisconsin hospitals. Design: In October 2019-January 2020, the Surgical Collaborative of Wisconsin, Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative, and Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality collaborated to design/distribute a survey to 44 Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative hospitals (n = 25 completed, response rate 57%). Descriptive statistics summarized survey items. Surgeons in each of six rural hospitals participated in stakeholder interviews. Setting: Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative hospitals. Main Outcome Measures: Colonoscopy providers, procedure volume/capacity, informatics and quality measurement infrastructure, barriers to quality measurement and improvement. Results: Most colonoscopy providers in rural hospitals were surgeons (66.3%) followed by family/internal medicine (20.0%) and gastroenterologists (13.8%). Average hospital volume/week was 19.9 colonoscopies (SD = 13.4). Hospitals reported operating at ~75% capacity. Withdrawal time was the most tracked measure (44.0%), followed by adenoma detection (36.0%), and cecal intubation (28.0%) rates. Approximately one-third of hospitals (36.0%) utilized procedure reporting software. Most hospitals (80.0%) did not have access to onsite pathology. Surgeons reported barriers to quality measurement/improvement, including insufficient resources for electronic medical record-based reporting and the need for targeted educational opportunities that do not require travel. Limitations: Single state; may not represent experience of all rural hospitals. Conclusions: The lack of access to colonoscopy quality measures suggests the opportunity to develop a flexible approach that considers reporting software availability and electronic medical record differences. Improving access to measures and education/training opportunities may improve availability of high-quality colonoscopy for patients in rural Wisconsin. See Video Abstract. (Copyright © The ASCRS 2024.)
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