Identifying the factors that can improve the quality of flexible telescopic examination (endoscopy) of gullet, stomach and small bowel by analysing the information of the patients who were diagnosed with upper gastrointestinal cancer and had endoscopy prior to diagnosis and by analysing the national endoscopic database

Registered study from ISRCTN registry. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation

Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Published

2023-12-27

Source reference

ISRCTN44918181

Jurisdiction

Not assessed

Licence

ISRCTN registry: metadata CC0, free text CC BY 4.0 (source: ISRCTN, www.isrctn.com). Contact details not imported.

Sponsor: Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust · Observational study · Funders: National Institute for Health Research · Conditions: Upper gastrointestinal cancer · Found via: Hospital Episode Statistics

Source: https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN44918181. Captured 2026-10-29.

Limitations: Registration details as submitted to ISRCTN. Found by a keyword search for Hospital Episode Statistics; the registration does not confirm that the study used that data resource, and no access authorisation is linked. Only registrations from 2019-02-01 are imported, so earlier studies are missing.