Updated quality indicators for endoscopic ultrasound, published by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and the American College of Gastroenterology, reflect profound innovations that have occurred in the field in recent years, particularly the rise of interventional and therapeutic EUS, which did not exist when the previous esophagogastroduodenoscopy quality indicators were published in 2015.
Lead author Girish Mishra, MD, the gastroenterology and hepatology section chief at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, N.C., told Gastroenterology & Endoscopy News that because the field of interventional EUS has emerged only within the last decade, the new quality indicators reflect the current state of the field while building on the foundation of diagnostic EUS knowledge (Am J Gastroenterol 2025;120[5]:973-992).