GuidelineDigestion2024
Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines for Chronic Diarrhea 2023.
Guideline in Digestion, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Efficacy and safety of probiotics combined with bismuth-containing quadruple therapy forFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Pooled it
- Development and validation of an interpretable machine-learning model for enteral nutrition-associated diarrhea in critically ill patients with ischemic stroke: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Machine learning-based predictive model for enteral nutrition-associated diarrhea in ICU patients and its nursing applications.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Global variation in antibiotic prescribing guidelines and the implications for decreasing AMR in the future.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
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Abstract
The Japan Gastroenterological Association (JGA) published the first version of clinical guidelines for chronic diarrhea 2023. These guidelines describe the definition, classification, diagnostic criteria, diagnostic testing methods, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and treatment of chronic diarrhea, and provide flowcharts for the diagnosis and treatment of chronic diarrhea based on the latest evidence. Treatment for chronic diarrhea begins by distinguishing secondary chronic constipation with a clear etiology, such as drug-induced diarrhea, food-induced diarrhea, systemic disease-associated diarrhea, infection-associated diarrhea, organic disease-associated diarrhea, and bile acid diarrhea. The first line of treatment for chronic diarrhea in the narrow sense, defined in these guidelines as functional diarrhea in routine medical care, is lifestyle modification and dietary therapy. The first medicines to be considered for oral treatment are probiotics for regulating the gut microbiome and anti-diarrheals. Other medications, such as 5HT3 receptor antagonists, anticholinergics, Kampo medicine, psychotherapy, antibiotics, bulking agents, adrenergic agonists, and somatostatin analogs, lack sufficient evidence for their use, highlighting a challenge for future research. This Clinical Guidelines for Chronic Diarrhea 2023, which provides the best clinical strategies for treating chronic diarrhea in Japan, will also be useful for medical treatment worldwide.
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