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How to Use This
Guide
About ASGE
and ACG
About ASGE
and ACG
This guide was created by the ASGE Taskforce on Competence in Endoscopy
with the support of ACG. It was created to help hospitals, credentialing
organizations, insurers and healthcare providers who have questions
regarding competence in and privileging for gastrointestinal endoscopy.
ASGE has created several guidelines on privileging, credentialing, and training
for GI endoscopy. We have included for you a primer—a guide to the
guidelines—to help find the information you need. We have also included
examples of credentialing issues to illustrate how the ASGE guidelines
might be applied to specific circumstances. Next, we have provided you
with an update on hospital liability demonstrating how hospitals can be
held liable if undertrained individuals are granted privileges to perform
endoscopy. Finally, This analysis the ASGE prepared Policy and by Williams Procedure & Manual Connolly, for Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy premier litigation Guidelines law for firms, Training was originally and Practice, commissioned available by the on
one of the
nation’s
American CD-ROM, College includes of the Gastroenterology full-text version in of 1992. each of It the was ASGE recently guidelines. updated
and rewritten by Williams & Connolly, again under the direction and with
It is our intention that these guidelines be used by hospitals and ambulatory
endoscopy centers
the support of the ACG. Finally, the ASGE Policy and Procedure Manual for
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
to guide
Guidelines
them
for
in creating
Training
policies
and Practice,
as to who
available
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on
allowed
CD-ROM,
to perform
includes
procedures
the full-text
in their
version
facilities.
of each
Accrediting
of the ASGE
organizations
guidelines.
will find them useful in ensuring that all institutions have appropriate policies
It is
that
our intention
apply equally
that
to
these
all practitioners.
guidelines be
And
used
third-party
by hospitals,
payers
ambulatory
should
endoscopy
find them useful
centers,
in
payers
setting
and
reimbursement
other credentialing
policy
bodies
so that
to
only
guide
the
them
highest
in
creating
quality of
policies
care is provided
as to who
to
will
their
be
patients.
allowed to perform procedures in their
facilities. Accrediting organizations will find them useful in ensuring that
all institutions have appropriate policies that apply equally to all practitioners.
And third-party payers should find them useful in setting reimburse-
ASGE is recognized as the premier specialty society dedicated to the education
of its physician members in the appropriate use of endoscopic techniques
for the diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. ACG
ment policy so that only the highest quality of care is provided to their
patients.
was formed in 1932 to advance the scientific study and medical treatment
of disorders of the GI tract. The College promotes the highest standards in
ASGE is recognized as the premier specialty society dedicated to the educa-
medical education and is guided by its commitment to meeting the needs
tion of its physician members in the appropriate use of endoscopic tech-
of clinical gastroenterology practitioners. Membership in these societies
niques for the diagnosis and treatment of of gastrointestinal diseases. ACG
consists of over 8,000 domestic and international gastroenterologists, surgeons,
and other medical specialists who utilize endoscopy as a diagnostic
was formed in 1932 to advance the scientific study and medical treatment
of disorders of the GI tract. The The College promotes the the highest standards in
and therapeutic method of treatment for diseases of the digestive tract and
in medical education and and is is guided by by its its commitment to meeting the needs
the clinical practice of gastroenterology more specifically. Eligibility for
of clinical gastroenterology practitioners. Membership in these societies
membership requires formal training in gastrointestinal endoscopy administered
by physicians and/or surgeons during a residency/fellowship in an
consists of over 8,000 domestic and international gastroenterologists, surgeons,
and other medical specialists who utilize endoscopy as a diagnostic
adult or pediatric program. Neither ASGE nor ACG are credentialing organizations
but are educational and advocacy societies serving the needs of
and therapeutic method of treatment for diseases of the digestive tract and
the clinical practice of gastroenterology more specifically. Eligibility for
endoscopists and their patients.
membership requires formal training in in gastrointestinal gastroenterology, endoscopy gastrointestinal administered
by physicians administered and/or by physicians surgeons during and/or a surgeons residency/fellowship during a residen-
in an
endoscopy
cy/fellowship adult or pediatric in an program. adult or Neither pediatric ASGE program. nor ACG Neither are credentialing ASGE nor ACG organizations
credentialing but are organizations educational and but advocacy are educational societies and serving advocacy the needs societies of
are
serving endoscopists the needs and their of gastroenterologists, patients. endoscopists and their patients.
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