Improving colposcopy standards by applying the quality indicators from the European Federation of Colposcopy

Objective: Quality Asssurance is a way of preventing mistakes in clinical practice and is gaining increasing importance in our health system. Up to now, colposcopy and colposcopy-guided treatments are performed in Switzerland without any specific quality requirements. The European Federation of Colpocopy (EFC) identified and published in its Delphi consultation quality indicators for colposcopic practice. These six criteria are relevant, reproducible and easy to be performed. Study design: We retrospectively applied these quality indicators on patients treated in our Colposcopy Clinic during the past 2 years. Th…