Anticoagulation therapy increases the risk of bleeding from endoscopic procedures. Clear documentation of a post-procedural anticoagulation plan is essential to reduce bleeding and limit unnecessary interruptions in patients’ anticoagulation. Societal guidelines provide recommendations regarding the management of peri-procedural anticoagulation and consider this a quality metric for endoscopy. In this study, we measured the rate of documentation of a post-procedural anticoagulation plan before and after the implementation of a quality initiative.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2021.05.024

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