Health Confidence Is Associated With Disease Outcomes and Health Care Utilization in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Nationwide Cross-sectional Study.
Chung Sang TseCorey A SiegelS Alandra WeaverBrant J OliverCatherine BreseeWelmoed K van DeenGil Y MelmedPublished in: Inflammatory bowel diseases (2021)
In a large, national sample of adults with IBD, there were strong associations between patients' health confidence and multiple disease outcome measures. Health confidence scores <8 on a 0-10 Likert scale may be clinically useful to screen for patients who are at risk for ED visits and hospitalizations.