E-QUALITY: ECCO Quality of Care Project

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The E-QUALITY project is an ongoing initiative of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation to ultimately improve the quality of care of patients living with Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). With this project, ECCO goes back to its historic mission: To improve the care of all patients with IBD in all its aspects through international guidelines for practice, education, research and collaboration in the area of IBD.
Throughout the project, multiple centres across the world have answered the E-QUALITY surveys and ECCO gratefully acknowledges the following participating centres for completing both survey rounds.
You can find the complete list here.

Participating Centres

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Public Profiles

Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) and Pfizer have provided unrestricted grants towards this independent Programme.

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Current project stage: after analysing 305 centres on standards of quality of care the Taskforce will submit an abstract to JCC

E-QUALITY Project aims to reach institutions within and outside of Europe to determine the gaps globally.

E-QUALITY Webinars

Past Webinars
Date
 September 5, 2024 - 19:00 - 20:00
Topic
Practical Solutions in Quality Standards of Care 
Date
June 19, 2024 - 19:00 - 20:00
Topic
Theoretical Approaches in Quality Standards of Care

Two major steps:

1) Current practice vs. ECCO Recommendations: Identifying the gaps
First step - ECCO will focus on identifying the gaps between the quality of standards as defined by ECCO Statements, and the current practice in daily clinical care. The results will be published in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis (JCC).

2) Fill the gaps
Second step - having identified the gaps, ECCO will aim at setting up educational tools and/or activities to fill them. This step will be planned further after the completion of the first step.

The overall estimated duration of the project is 3 to 5 years.

Which papers and tools will be used by ECCO to identify the gaps?

1) ECCO’s Recommendations
ECCO’s Recommendations in term of Quality Standards of Care were published in August 2020 in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis “Quality of Care Standards in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: a European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation Position Paper”. In this Position Statement, ECCO listed 111 quality standards that represent the optimum quality of care according to ECCO, grouped into three main domains:
i) Structure (IBD Core team, interdisciplinary team, IBD facilities)
ii) Process (any process related to IBD, such as diagnosis, monitoring, special situations) and
iii) Outcomes (objectives and quality measures able to quantify the effectiveness of structures and processes)

2) Real World data on clinical practice – UR-CARE
ECCO plans on comparing its recommendations with real-world data collected in the United Registries for Clinical Assessment and Research (UR-CARE), which was launched by ECCO in 2017. UR-CARE is a patient database accessible online which offers comprehensive data collection for patients diagnosed with Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and unclassified IBD through extensive forms. It is meant for individual centres, to support the management of patients on a daily basis, and for academic study groups, to perform retrospective studies. For the E-QUALITY project, data which has already been collected will be used retrospectively to compare current clinical practice and ECCO’s Recommendations.

Stay tuned for the first outcomes of this important initiative!

E-QUALITY Taskforce:

Gionata Fiorino
Italy
Project Leader
Gionata Fiorino


Alissa Walsh
United Kingdom
Project Coordinator
Alissa Walsh
Catarina Fidalgo
Portugal
Project Coordinator
Catarina Fidalgo
Marc Ferrante
Belgium
Marc Ferrante

Liselotte Fierens
Belgium
Liselotte Fierens

Martin Bortlik
Czech Republic
Martin Bortlik

Johan Burisch
Denmark
Johan Burisch

Julien Kirchgesner
France
Julien Kirchgesner

Axel Dignass
Germany
Axel Dignass

Konstantinos Karmiris
Greece
Konstantinos Karmiris

Lihi Godny
Israel
Lihi Godny

Dror Shouval
Israel
Dror Shouval

Henit Yanai
Israel
Henit Yanai

Francesca Rosini
Italy
Francesca Rosini

Edyta Zagrowicz
Poland
Edyta Zagrowicz

Anna Gojdicova
Slovakia
Anna Gojdicova

David Drobne
Slovenia
David Drobne

Manuel Barreiro-De Acosta
Spain
Manuel Barreiro-De Acosta

Susanna Jäghult
Sweden
Susanna Jäghult

Michel Adamina
Switzerland
Michel Adamina

Sophie Restellini
Switzerland
Sophie Restellini

Mariam Ali
The Netherlands
Mariam Ali

Welmoed Van Deen
The Netherlands
Welmoed Van Deen

Omar Faiz
United Kingdom
Omar Faiz

Marietta Iacucci
United Kingdom
Marietta Iacucci