Clinical Algorithms Project
Developed by the Rome Foundation and published in the April 2010 issue of The American Journal of Gastroenterology, the new tool, Diagnostic Algorithms for Common Gastrointestinal Symptoms, provides an evidence-based approach to the diagnosis of functional gastrointestinal disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and functional dyspepsia, by providing diagnostic pathways for common symptoms such as abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and constipation. These clinically meaningfully diagnostic algorithms are based on the consensus of numerous experts, use standard methods and yes-no decision trees, and all end in specific diagnoses, providing clinicians with the best diagnostic strategies currently available.
The Rome Foundation has for years recognized the limitations of the diagnostic criteria for functional GI disorders they developed known widely as "the Rome Criteria" - a standardized classification system for the functional GI disorders, which, until now, did not include a clinical application component. The new diagnostic tool is the result of a two-year collaborative process that incorporates symptoms-based criteria and other diagnostic information into clinical algorithms that can be easily understood and applied in the clinical setting.
The Rome Foundation gratefully acknowledges the Algorithm Project Sponsors, Procter & Gamble, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Synergy, Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Zeria Pharmaceuticals.
Algorithm Publication and Access
- The Rome Foundation Clinical Algorithms were published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology. Please see the Journal Website to access them.
- The Rome Foundation Clinical Algorithms were recently published in Spanish in the Revista de Gastroenterología de México (Mexican Journal of Gastroenterology) in November 2010. Please see the Mexican Journal Website to access them.
Rome Foundation copyright policy and licensing fee schedules for translations and
usage of these items and products are now available. Please contact Michele Pickard at [email protected]
Douglas A. Drossman, Associate Editor
Henry Parkman, MD, Co-Chair
Carlar Blackman, Project Manager
Northwestern University
Chicago, IL, USA
André J.P.M. Smout, MD, PhD
University Hospital
Utrecht, GA
THE NETHERLANDS
University Hospitals Leuven
University of Leuven
Leuven, BELGIUM
Nicholas J. Talley, MD, PhD
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Wolfson Digestive Disease Centre
University Hospital, Nottingham
Nottingham, UK
W. Grant Thompson, MD
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, ON, CANADA
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Rochester, MN, USA
Arnold Wald, MD
University of Wisconsin School
of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI, USA
UNC Center for Functional GI
& Motility Disorders
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Ami D. Sperber, MD, MSPH
Soroka Medical Center
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, ISRAEL
Università "La Sapienza"
Roma, ITALY
Peter B. Cotton MD, FRCP, FRCS
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, SC, USA