The ESGO Accreditation in Endometrial Cancer Surgery recognises institutions that provide high quality surgical care in line with established European standards.
The accreditation is based on ESGO quality indicators and validated scoring system developed with an international expert panel. It assesses clinical performance, organisation of care and surgical outcomes.
Eligibility
To get accredited, centres must:
- Meet the criteria defined in the ESGO quality indicators for the surgical treatment of endometrial carcinoma.
- Treat 50+ newly diagnosed endometrial carcinoma cases per year.
- Conduct 50+ endometrial carcinoma primary surgeries (including early and advanced stages) per year.
- Achieve a score of 115+ points via the self-assessment to prove satisfactory surgical management of endometrial carcinoma.
ESGO may perform random audits of applicants by asking for operative reports and pathology reports from selected cases in their dataset.
How to apply
Applications are submitted online via REDCap.
After creating an account you will be guided through the submission process, including data entry and validation.
Information required
- A pseudo-anonymised dataset containing all patients treated for endometrial cancer.
- Documentation of clinical trials (NCT number and recruitment numbers overall per year, if available).
- A description of how complications are documented, and quality management is performed.
- A list of articles published on endometrial cancer by team members from your centre (for eligibility to be a Centre of Excellence).
REDCap will ask for data from the past 3 years.
Questions?
If you have any questions, you can email us at adminoffice@www.esgo.org.
Application review
- After initial reviews, the application is submitted to a jury outside the country of the applicant institution.
- The review and evaluation will be processed via the REDCap platform.
- Accreditation is valid for 5 years, subject to renewal if standards are maintained. Reminders for reaccreditation will be automatically sent from REDCap.
- If rejected, centres can resubmit an application after 1 year.
Centres of Excellence
High-volume and high-quality centres will be automatically assessed to be a ‘Centre of Excellence’ in their accreditation type.
To qualify centres must:
- Achieve a self-assessment score of ≥115 (>80% of the maximum score).
- Publish of at least 3 articles on endometrial carcinoma authored by a gynaecological surgical oncology member of the team over the last 3 years, including at least one article as first or last author.
Centres of Excellence contribute to ESGO’s quality assurance programme by supporting education to improve care in non-accredited centres and by complementing training for lower-volume accredited centres.