Small-Bowel Capsule Endoscopy in Clinical Practice: Has Anything Changed Over 13 Years?

In Lombardia, one of the 20 Italian administrative Regions, small-bowel capsule endoscopy (SBCE) was introduced in 2001. In January 2011, the Regional Health Authorities established a reimbursement for outpatient SBCE. To prospectively record data on SBCE between 2011–2013 and compare them to similar data retrospectively collected from the same geographical area (covering the period 2001–2008) and published in 2008. Consecutive SBCEs performed...