An international research team conducted a literature review and canvassed experts to develop a new questionnaire to assess disability in patients with IBD. The new questionnaire was compared with SF-36 and short-IBD in 81 patients. They found that the new questionnaire was able to detect disability and was reliable and reproducible. Long-term testing in large groups of ethnically diverse patients from different countries now needs to be carried out to confirm the findings.
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Allen, P. B. et al. Development and validation of a patient-reported disability measurement tool for patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Aliment. Pharmacol. Ther. doi:10.1111/apt.12187
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New tool for measuring disability in IBD. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 10, 64 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2013.6
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nrgastro.2013.6