We will be assessing the effect that moving to mainly virtual clinic appointments has had on carbon emissions.
Virtual consultations have proved feasible during the COVID era, and whilst we know that mileage travelled by car/public transport has reduced, there is a lack of data on the impact remote consultations have had on carbon emissions.
The aim of our project is to assess the carbon emissions of patients attending gastroenterology outpatient services before (mainly face to face) and during the pandemic (mainly virtual) and any adverse outcomes resulting from virtual consultations. The data collected will then be used to quantify the reduction in carbon emissions achieved by adapting to remote clinics.
Being written-up, watch this space!
Quality of care in adult IBD patients transferring between healthcare providers: multi-centre audit
GLINT Research Network
Thanks to the incredible efforts of our delegates across 16 hospitals in London we successfully submitted the project at the BSG annual conference in Glasgow, June 2019, for poster presentation.
One of our delegates, Penny Sellers, was picked at random from a group of enthusiastic volunteers to present our poster at the conference. A great success for all involved - thank you and well done!
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Use of a standardised ulcerative colitis (UC) reporting proforma is associated with more optimal endoscopic reporting
GLINT Research Network, Rawen Kader, Paul Middleton, Omer Ahmad, Robin J Dart, Joshua McGuire, Mark A Samaan, Gregory M Sebepos-Rogers, Jonathan P Segal, Eather Shakweh
Our second project was accepted for presentation at ECCO, February 2020. Again, this effort required the complex coordination of results across multiple sites in London -seven in total this time - and lead to 899 data points. The results provide an interesting and important insight in to endoscopic reporting and how to possibly improve standardisation.
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Transient elastography is underutilised in London hospitals and results in unnecessary endoscopic screening for oesophageal varices: a multi-site audit of practice
Michael Colwill, Lalana Songra, Metin Yalcin, Khizar Rafique, Rajan Patel, Charlotte Skinner, Saniath Akbar, Luke Lake, Andra Caracostea, Jennifer Clough, Rawan Kader, Sean Carlson, Eather Shakweh, Mohamed El-Sayed, Samuel Tribich, Ava Zamani, Emma Michael, Maria Baysham, Khin Han, Alexandra Chang, Alexander Cole, Louise China, James Maurice
Michael Colwill presented our multi-site audit on the use of the Baveno VI guidelines in hospitals across London at BASL's annual virtual meeting in September 2020. This work is more pertinent now than ever given the current strain on outpatient endoscopy services due to the COVID pandemic.
12 hospitals were involved with 828 endoscopies reviewed over a 6 month period. Of the patients who had had a recent transient elastography and gone on to have a screening OGD, over 80% did not meet the criteria for this: a potential saving of £48,000 - although 6.34% of those outside the Baveno criteria did go on to have significant varices.
Quality of care in adult IBD patients transferring between healthcare providers: multi-centre audit
GLINT Research Network, Omer F Ahmad, Homira Ayubi, Jennie Clough, Robin Dart, Radha Gadhok, Samuel Pannick, Gareth Parkes, Polychronis Pavlidis, Jonathan Segal, Penelope Sellers
Following the success and importance of the findings in the initial poster presented at the 2019 Annual BSG Conference, we decided to expand our findings in to a complete paper and are proud to have had it successfully published in Frontline Gastroenterology, completing an impressive inaugural year for our network.
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Implementation of an intervention bundle leads to quality improvement in ulcerative colitis endoscopy reporting (GastroHep 2020)
Rawen Kader, Robin J. Dart, Gregory Sebepos-Rogers, Eathar Shakweh, Paul Middleton, Joshua McGuire, Polychronis Pavlidis, Omer F. Ahmad, GLINT Research Network, Jonathan Segal, Mark A. Samaan
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ygh2.427
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Unlocking the benefits of the Baveno VI guidance when screening for varices: an audit of clinical practice across London (Future Healthcare Journal 2022)
Future Healthcare Journal 2022 Vol 9, No 1: 1–4
Michael Colwill, Luke Lake, Ahmed El-Sayed, Jonathan King, Rawen Kader, Eathar Shakweh, Andra Caracostea, Louise China and James Maurice
https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/futurehosp/early/2022/01/18/fhj.2021-0130
GLINT Research Group
GLINT is a trainee-led research group for London gastroenterology trainees.
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