Automatic, standardized monitoring of quality indicators in endoscopy is essential, yet in routine practice these metrics are often underused or inconsistently documented. This work reviews and systematizes key quality indicators for colonoscopy and Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and describes how they can be automatically extracted from medical reports to populate visual dashboards that support continuous quality improvement. For colonoscopy, the paper details indicators summarizing current benchmark values and guideline targets. For ERCP, it synthesizes intra-procedural indicators defined by major societies. The study uses approximately 22,000 colonoscopy and 6,000 ERCP reports from a Portuguese tertiary hospital and illustrates two prototype dashboards for colonoscopy and ERCP. By linking guideline-based definitions of quality to real-world report data, the proposed platform shows how informatics tools can operationalize quality indicators at scale, providing endoscopy units with actionable feedback to monitor performance, identify gaps, and support evidence-based optimization of clinical practice.
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