Quality of care in inflammatory bowel diseases: What is the best way to better outcomes?

Core Tip

Core tip: The approach to diagnosis, follow up and management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has undergone a major transformation in the past decade. Many different international quality indicators that span structure, process and outcome measures have been developed. These serve as major targets in optimizing quality of care (QoC). New developments have been designed to improve QoC including utilizing telemedicine, home biomarker testing and providing rapid access care to patients. Treating to target with proactive disease management guided by clinical history utilizing adjunctive biomarkers at the onset of IBD has been shown to improve objective outcomes. This will likely serve as the new favored treatment approach in many IBD centers across the globe.