CCE Gastrointestinal disorders: Mayo Clinic - Selection criteria

Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota

Year Founded: 1967

Faculty: 75

Annual budget: $88 million

Annual clinical trials: 55

Federally funded grants: 40

Faculty members: 75

Total employees: 308

Procedures performed annually: 45,473

Annual referrals: 13,657 physician-requested consultations

National awards and recognition: U.S. News & World Report top GI practice for 19 years

Number of new research protocols engaged in annually: 47

RO1 active grants: 27

Scope of GI endoscopy servicesMayo Clinic Rochester GI provides diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic care to inpatients and outpatients. Procedures include:

• EGD (esophagogastroduodenoscopy)

• Colonoscopy

• Flexible sigmoidoscopy
• EUS (endoscopic ultrasound)
• ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography)
• Esophageal, gastroduodenal, and colonic motility studies
• Anorectal function testing
• Testing for chronic constipation & other motility disorders
• Capsule endoscopy
• Gastric laboratory specimen collection
• Double balloon endoscopy
• Single balloon endoscopy

Scope of Services GIH Clinical Practice:

• Gastrointestinal Neoplasia
• Comprehensive
• Advanced Endoscopy
• Esophageal
• Gut Failure
• Hepatobiliary
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Motility
• Pancreatic
• Pediatric

Level of technological equipment on site:

• Double Balloon Technology
• Single Balloon Technology
• Spy Glass
• ARMS (Anal Rectal Manometry Sensor) Equipment
• Photodynamic & radio-ablation therapy for Barrett’s esophagus or advanced esophageal cancer
• Endoscopic pseudocyst draining

Quality Improvement Initiatives

• Formal quality committee and a full-time quality advisor.
• Radio Frequency Identification system (RFID) that reduced the number of specimen labeling errors from 8.9 percent to 0.4 percent.
• Implementation of the Universal Protocol and the computerized endoscopic.

• Formed a patient/family advisory council that meets monthly.