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ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

Role of Quality of Life as Endpoint for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment.

Cristina Calviño-Suárez, Rocío Ferreiro-Iglesias, Iria Bastón-Rey, Manuel Barreiro-de Acosta

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Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Cristina Calviño-SuárezIBD Unit, Gastroenterology Department, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Rocío Ferreiro-IglesiasIBD Unit, Gastroenterology Department, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0469-4332
Iria Bastón-ReyIBD Unit, Gastroenterology Department, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Manuel Barreiro-de AcostaIBD Unit, Gastroenterology Department, University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-5915-1477
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are chronic disabling conditions, characterized by an unpredictable course with flare-ups and periods of remission, that frequently affect young people and require lifelong medical follow-up and treatment. For years, the main endpoints of IBD treatment had been clinical remission and response, followed by biomarker normalization and mucosal healing. In the last decades, different therapies have been proved to be effective to treat IBD and the use of patient reported outcome (PRO) have become more relevant. Therefore, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that has been defined as the value assigned to the duration of life influenced by physical and mental health, has been suggested as an important endpoint for IBD management since multiple studies have shown that IBD impairs it, both physically and psychologically. Thus, HRQoL has been included as an outcome in numerous studies evaluating different IBD therapies, both clinical trials and real-life studies. It has been assessed by using both generic and specific disease tools, and most treatments used in clinical practice have been demonstrated to improve HRQoL. The relevance of HRQoL as an endpoint for new drugs is going to increase and its management and improvement will also improve the prognosis of IBD patients.

Indexed as

Colitis, UlcerativeInflammatory Bowel DiseasesAdolescentHumansQuality of LifeCrohn’s diseasequality of lifeulcerative colitis

Identifiers

PMID34281095
PMCPMC8296948
OpenAlexW3179674741

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