Observational Study
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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Jan 16, 2015; 7(1): 66-72
Published online Jan 16, 2015. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v7.i1.66
Treatment of dysplastic Barrett’s Oesophagus in lower volume centres after structured training
Georgina Chadwick, Jack Faulkner, Robert Ley-Greaves, Panagiotis Vlavianos, Rob Goldin, Jonathan Hoare
Georgina Chadwick, Jack Faulkner, Robert Ley-Greaves, Panagiotis Vlavianos, Jonathan Hoare, Department of Gastroenterology, St Marys Hospital, W2 1NY London, United Kingdom
Rob Goldin, Department of Histopathology, St Marys Hospital, W2 1NY London, United Kingdom
Author contributions: Hoare J designed the study; Vlavianos P and Hoare J performed all the endoscopies, and collected all the specimens; Goldin R analysed all the specimens; Chadwick G, Faulkner J and Ley-Greaves R extracted all the results from the endoscopy database for analysis; Chadwick G wrote the manuscript with input from Faulkner J and Ley-Greaves R; the manuscript was critically reviewed and edited by Hoare J, Vlavianos P and Goldin R; all authors approved the final manuscript.
Ethics approval: The study was a retrospective observational study and as such did not require review and approval by the Institutional Review board.
Informed consent: The study was a retrospective observational study using routinely collected hospital data, and as such did not require informed consent.
Conflict-of-interest: The research received no specific grant from any funding agency, in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit services. Georgina Chadwick, Panagiotis Vlavianos, Rob Goldin and Jonathan Hoare are employees of imperial College NHS Trust.
Data sharing: No additional data available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Dr. Georgina Chadwick, Department of Gastroenterology, St Marys Hospital, Praed St, Paddington, W2 1NY London, United Kingdom. gchadwick@rcseng.ac.uk
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Received: August 28, 2014
Peer-review started: August 30, 2014
First decision: November 3, 2014
Revised: November 10, 2014
Accepted: December 16, 2014
Article in press: December 17, 2014
Published online: January 16, 2015
Core Tip

Core tip: With structured training endoscopic treatment of dysplastic Barrett’s Oesophagus with endoscopic resection and radiofrequency ablation can be provided in lower volume centres with good safety and efficacy outcomes.