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Clinical competence and judgement are issues which must be resolved by adequate training before the procedure (see Chapter 3, pages 39–41). However, there are a variety of practices which can be undertaken before an endoscopy that may influence the safety of that procedure.
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Fleischer, D. (1991). Report of Workshop on Procedural Safety. In: McCloy, R., Davies, A.P. (eds) Quality Control in Endoscopy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77138-5_4
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