Significant differences in IBD care and education across Europe: results of the pan-European VIPER survey

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000890024900001" target="_blank" >https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/full-record/WOS:000890024900001</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000528070" target="_blank" >10.1159/000528070</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Significant differences in IBD care and education across Europe: results of the pan-European VIPER survey

Original language description

Background:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) care and education might differ around Europe. Therefore, we conducted this European Variation In IBD PracticE suRvey (VIPER) to investigate potential differences between countries.Methods:This trainee-initiated survey, run through SurveyMonkey (R), consisted of 47 questions inquiring basic demographics, IBD training, and clinical care. Results were compared according to gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, for which countries were divided into 2 groups (low/high income, according to the World Bank). Results:The online survey was completed by 1285 participants from 40 European countries, with a majority of specialists (65.3%) working in academic institutions (50.4%). Significant differences in IBD-specific training (55.9% vs. 38.4%), as well as availability of IBD units (58.4% vs. 39.7%) and multidisciplinary meetings (73.2% vs. 40.1%) were observed between respondees from high and low GDP countries (p&lt;0.0001). In high GDP countries, IBD nurses are more common (85.9% vs. 36.0%), also mirrored by more nurse-led IBD clinics (40.6% vs. 13.7%; p&lt;0.0001). IBD dieticians (33.4% vs. 16.5%) and psychologists (16.8% vs. 7.5%) are mainly present in high GDP countries (p&lt;0.0001). In the current COVID era, telemedicine is available in 73.2% vs. 54.1% of the high/low GDP countries respectively (p&lt;0.0001). Treat-to-target approaches are implemented everywhere (85.0%), though access to biologicals and small molecules differs significantly. Conclusion:Much variability in IBD practice exists across Europe, with marked differences between high vs. low GDP countries. Further work is required to help address some of these inequalities, aiming to improve and standardize IBD care and training across Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30219 - Gastroenterology and hepatology

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Digestive diseases

ISSN

0257-2753

e-ISSN

1421-9875

Volume of the periodical

41

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

387-395

UT code for WoS article

001061267100011

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85152674936