Symptom burden: A forgotten area of measurement in inflammatory bowel disease
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2012-10
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Farrell, Dawn
Savage, Eileen
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Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
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Inflammatory bowel disease collectively known as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are chronic inflammatory diseases of the digestive tract. Periods of active and inactive disease are common along the trajectory of this illness. A range of symptoms such as fatigue, diarrhoea and abdominal pain are experienced and are often very debilitating in nature resulting in significance interference in daily life. Despite this, to date research in the area of symptoms remains an underexplored topic. This paper aims to discuss current approaches to symptom assessment in IBD and the potential to measure symptom burden in further research, in order to gain a greater understanding into the experiences of individuals with IBD.
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Crohn's disease , Inflamatory bowel disease , Symptom assessment , Ulcerative colitis
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FARRELL, D. & SAVAGE, E. 2012. Symptom burden: A forgotten area of measurement in inflammatory bowel disease. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 18, 497-500. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-172X.2012.02063.x
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© 2012 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: FARRELL, D. & SAVAGE, E. 2012. Symptom burden: A forgotten area of measurement in inflammatory bowel disease. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 18, 497-500. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-172X.2012.02063.x, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-172X.2012.02063.x