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Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Can Less Be More?

Jeffrey M. Lackner, PsyD, Gregory D. Gudleski, PhD, Matthew M. Zack, MD, Leonard A. Katz, MD, Catherine Powell, BA, Susan Krasner, PhD, Elizabeth Holmes, MA and Kathryn Dorscheimer, BA

From the Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine (J.M.L., G.D.G., L.A.K., C.P., E.H., K.D.) and the Department of Anesthesiology (S.K.), University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York, Buffalo, New York; and the Health Care and Aging Studies Branch, Division of Adult and Community Health (M.M.Z.), National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia.


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  		Figure 1. Core items of the CDC HRQOL-4.

 

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  		Figure 2. Mean unhealthy days as a function of IBS and other health characteristics. All data except IBS based on 1993–1999 BRFSS, selected states, age-adjusted.

 




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