ArticleClinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association2009
Do the Symptom-Based, Rome Criteria of Irritable Bowel Syndrome Lead to Better Diagnosis and Treatment Outcomes? The Con Argument.
Article in Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Irritable bowel syndrome: how useful is the term and the 'diagnosis'?Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2012Article
- Managing symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.Gut · 2011Article
- Pilot study: a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial of pancrealipase for the treatment of postprandial irritable bowel syndrome-diarrhoea.Frontline gastroenterology · 2011Article
- Validation of symptom-based diagnostic criteria for irritable bowel syndrome: a critical review.The American journal of gastroenterology · 2010Review
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Abstract
Some claim that symptom-based Rome criteria are diagnostic and enhance clinical practice and choice of therapy for patients presenting with gastrointestinal symptoms. This overview focuses on lower gastrointestinal symptoms: constipation, diarrhea, pain and bloating. The main con arguments for using such criteria for diagnosis are: insufficient specificity, overlap of symptom-based categories or disorders, insufficient and therefore non-specific characterization of pain in the criteria, inability to differentiate the "mimics" of IBS-C and IBS-D, and inability to optimize treatment for IBS-M or bloating in the absence of objective measurements. While doctors may not land in trouble using "symptom diagnosis" of IBS, this should not deter them from optimizing diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated with gastrointestinal dysfunction.
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