A positive diagnostic strategy is safe and saves endoscopies in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: A five-year follow-up of a randomized controlled trial.
Anne Line EngsbroLuise M BegtrupPeter HaastrupMaria Munch StorsveenPeter BytzerJens KjeldsenOve Schaffalitzky De MuckadellDorte Ejg JarbølPublished in: Neurogastroenterology and motility : the official journal of the European Gastrointestinal Motility Society (2020)
A positive diagnosis of IBS was as safe as a diagnosis of exclusion in a five-year perspective and saved lower endoscopies; the study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov numbers: NCT00659763/NCT01153295.
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