Quality & Safety

Your Journey To Recognized Excellence

ASGE is committed to advancing patient safety and the highest standards of quality in gastrointestinal endoscopy. Through programs, initiatives and practical tools, ASGE helps members strengthen clinical performance, improve GI unit operations and foster continuous quality improvement. These resources equip GI professionals to deliver safe, effective and patient-centered care.

Quality in Endoscopy Guidance Documents

Endoscopy units are responsible for establishing protocols that ensure the highest level of quality and safety while maintaining compliance. ASGE quality and safety guidance documents support your team in delivering consistent, evidence-based practice and support continuous quality improvement.

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Quality in Endoscopy

Team-based Training in Quality and Safety

ASGE offers educational programs to meet each member of your GI healthcare team where they are at so they can work at the top of their role.

Foundations

The ASGE Quality Course

Build foundational knowledge and equip your team to deliver safe, consistent, high-quality care.

Leadership

The ASGE GI Unit Leadership Course

Develop the leadership skills needed to improve performance, strengthen culture, and support your unit's success.

Recognition

Endoscopy Unit Recognition Program (EURP)

When your unit is ready, pursue EURP recognition and demonstrate your commitment to measurable quality and safety standards.

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On-Demand Education

Quality Improvement Learning Bundle
Practice Management

Quality Essentials Learning Bundle

Build a stronger, safer, higher-performing endoscopy unit with ASGE's Quality Essentials Learning Bundle. This comprehensive learning experience combines Improving Quality and Safety in the Endoscopy Unit (November 2025), which equips your entire team with the knowledge and tools to deliver safe, consistent, high-quality care.
Shaping a High-Performing Endoscopy Unit
Practice Management

Shaping a High-Performing Endoscopy Unit

In today’s multifaceted and demanding healthcare environment, a vibrant, engaged GI healthcare team that delivers higher quality, safer and more efficient care with measurable and improved clinical outcomes will thrive and financially survive. Join expert faculty and dive into a broad range of topics through the lens of Leading Effectively through Accountability and Development. Through a mix of didactic and case-based interactive discussions, practical approaches to solving common challenges faced by endoscopy units will be explored. This course contains presentations and recordings from the live/virtual course that was held on February 22, 2025.
Improving Quality and Safety in the Endoscopy Unit
Practice Management

Improving Quality and Safety in the Endoscopy Unit

Providing safe, effective, efficient care to patients takes every member of the healthcare team working together to address quality and safety issues. Designed to educate physicians and non-physician staff on how to translate quality and safety concepts into everyday practice, this course will cover everything from the fundamental elements of a successful program, to emerging trends and evidence. Through a mixture of didactic lectures and interactive sessions, this renowned quality course will empower participants with practical solutions that can be immediately deployed to improve quality and safety in any GI endoscopy setting (i.e., office, ASC, hospital). Participants will leave feeling prepared to build and maintain a top-notch quality assurance and performance improvement program. This course contains recordings of the live/virtual event that took place on November 1, 2025.

Performance & Measurement Reporting

Tools and programs to help GI units measure performance, track outcomes, meet reporting requirements, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

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GIQuIC

The GIQuIC clinical benchmarking registry is a collaboration of ASGE and the American College of Gastroenterology, a powerful quality improvement tool GI healthcare teams use to improve patient care. GIQuIC is approved as a qualified clinical data registry for reporting to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid’s Merit-based Incentive Payment System.

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CMS Quality Programs

ASGE advocates for fairness and transparency in public quality reporting programs and offers guidance to GI healthcare teams in navigating program requirements.

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Contact Quality@asge.org with questions about ASGE's Quality & Safety Programs.