Quantifying Rome symptoms for diagnosis of the irritable bowel syndrome.

J Y ChangA E AlmazarG Richard LockeJ J LarsonE J AtkinsonN J TalleyYuri A Saito Loftus

Published in: Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society (2018)

Irritable bowel syndrome appears to be a spectrum disorder. Quantifying individual symptoms of Rome criteria has greater utility than the current application in representing the degree of IBS affectedness and appears to better reflect a clinical diagnosis of IBS applied by physicians. The use of a quantitative diagnostic Rome "score" may be helpful in clinical practice and research studies to better reflect the degree an individual is affected with IBS.

Keyphrases

irritable bowel syndrome
spectrum disorder
clinical practice
primary care
sleep quality
high resolution
depressive symptoms