An assessment of symptom burden in inflammatory bowel diseases to develop a patient preference-weighted symptom score.

Welmoed Kirsten van DeenAlexandra ObremskeyGraham MooreM Elske van den Akker-van MarleJason N DoctorCaroline Hwang

Published in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2020)

We quantified the relative importance of four common IBD symptoms and developed the PWS score for IBD, which takes the relative importance of different symptoms and symptom-levels into account. The PWS score can be used to obtain a patient-centered assessment of symptom burden.

Keyphrases

patient reported
magnetic resonance
risk factors
case report
sleep quality