Irritable bowel syndrome monitoring
|
Irritable bowel syndrome Microchapters |
|
Differentiating Irritable bowel syndrome from other Diseases |
|---|
|
Diagnosis |
|
Treatment |
|
Case Studies |
|
Irritable bowel syndrome monitoring On the Web |
|
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Irritable bowel syndrome monitoring |
|
Risk calculators and risk factors for Irritable bowel syndrome monitoring |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Symptoms
The symptoms of irritable bowel can be monitored over time to gauge response to therapy with many surveys available.[1]
The 9 item Birmingham IBS Symptom Questionnaire. The Birmingham asks about symptoms over the last 4 weeks using the dimensions of pain, diarrhea, and constipation.[2]
Another survey is the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale modified for use in patients with IBS (GSRS-IBS) which has 13 items.[3]
References
- ↑ Spiegel BM, Bolus R, Agarwal N, Sayuk G, Harris LA, Lucak S; et al. (2010). "Measuring symptoms in the irritable bowel syndrome: development of a framework for clinical trials". Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 32 (10): 1275–91. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04464.x. PMID 20955447.
- ↑ Roalfe AK, Roberts LM, Wilson S (2008). "Evaluation of the Birmingham IBS symptom questionnaire". BMC Gastroenterol. 8: 30. doi:10.1186/1471-230X-8-30. PMC 2496907. PMID 18651941.
- ↑ Wiklund IK, Fullerton S, Hawkey CJ, Jones RH, Longstreth GF, Mayer EA; et al. (2003). "An irritable bowel syndrome-specific symptom questionnaire: development and validation". Scand J Gastroenterol. 38 (9): 947–54. PMID 14531531.