Integrating the Patient Perspective to Validate a Measure of Disease Severity in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Online Survey of Patients and Their Physicians.
Antje TimmerJohanna NeuserDominik de SordiMartin Schmidt-LauberHubert AllgayerChristoph ReichelFrank KleblFlorian ObermeierElisabeth SchnoyPetra JessenJulia MorgensternUlf HelwigChristian MaaserLudger LeifeldSebastian SchmidtChristian MeinhardtUlrich BöckerAlexander ArltElke BästleinArne BokemeyerJan C PreißFabian Otto-SobotkaBirgit KaltzCornelia SanderWolfgang KruisPublished in: Inflammatory bowel diseases (2024)
The DSI showed good discrimination for patient-reported disease severity in UC but performed unsatisfactorily in CD. Correlations were moderate. Further refinement of the DSI is suggested to better reflect the patient perspective.