Quality of Life in Persons with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Development and Validation of a New Measure)
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Digestive Diseases and Sciences
- Vol. 43 (2) , 400-411
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1018831127942
Abstract
How irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and itstreatment affect quality of life (QOL) is important. Todevelop a quality-of-life measure specific to irritablebowel syndrome, items were generated using a...Keywords
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