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Colonoscopy and lower GI bleedingGeorge F Longstreth
Am J Gastroenterol 97:203-4. 2002- Definition and classification of irritable bowel syndrome: current consensus and controversiesGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, 4647 Zion Avenue, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Gastroenterol Clin North Am 34:173-87. 2005.... - Characteristics of patients with irritable bowel syndrome recruited from three sources: implications for clinical trialsG F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, San Diego, California, USA
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 15:959-64. 2001..Variation in the characteristics of irritable bowel syndrome patients recruited for clinical trials from different sources could affect their response and the generalizability of trial results... - Diseases and drugs that increase risk of acute large bowel ischemiaGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, San Diego, California, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 8:49-54. 2010..Information is limited on risk factors for acute large bowel ischemia (ALBI). We investigated diseases and drugs associated with ALBI... - Epidemiology, clinical features, high-risk factors, and outcome of acute large bowel ischemiaGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, San Diego, California, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 7:1075-80.e1-2; quiz 1023. 2009..Only a limited amount of important information is available on acute lower bowel ischemia (ALBI). We investigated the epidemiology, clinical aspects, high-risk factors, and outcome of ALBI... - Avoiding unnecessary surgery in irritable bowel syndromeGeorge F Longstreth
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, 4647 Zion Avenue, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Gut 56:608-10. 2007 - Functional bowel disordersGeorge F Longstreth
Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, California 92120, USA
Gastroenterology 130:1480-91. 2006..Treatment of FBDs is based on an individualized evaluation, explanation, and reassurance. Alterations in diet, drug treatment aimed at predominant symptoms, and psychotherapy may be beneficial... - Diabetic thoracic polyradiculopathyGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 4647 Zion Avenue, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Best Pract Res Clin Gastroenterol 19:275-81. 2005..The pathology appears to be immune-mediated neurovasculitis resulting in ischemic injury. Traditional therapy is symptomatic, but recent pathological findings and clinical experience suggest that immunotherapy may be effective... - Severe irritable bowel and functional abdominal pain syndromes: managing the patient and health care costsGeorge F Longstreth
Kaiser Medical Center Medical Care Plan, 4647 Zion Avenue, San Diego, CA 92129, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 3:397-400. 2005 - Impact of irritable bowel syndrome on patients' lives: development and psychometric documentation of a disease-specific measure for use in clinical trialsGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA
Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 17:411-20. 2005..To develop a disease-specific questionnaire to capture the impact of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and its treatment on patients' lives, the Irritable Bowel Syndrome Impact Scale (IBS-IS)... - Irritable bowel syndrome and surgery: a multivariable analysisGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, Kaiser Medical Center, 4647 Zion Avenue, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Gastroenterology 126:1665-73. 2004..Patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have high surgical rates. We investigated the demographic and medical factors independently associated with surgical histories of health examinees... - New developments in the diagnosis and treatment of irritable bowel syndromeGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 4647 Zion Avenue, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Curr Gastroenterol Rep 4:427-34. 2002..Various forms of psychological therapy and new serotonin-modulating agents seem especially promising. The placebo effect of the physician-patient relationship has important therapeutic benefit... - Northern Baja California Indian women's concepts of illness and healing: Implications for public health and clinical practitionersG F Longstreth
Department of Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, San Diego, CA, USA
Glob Public Health 5:626-38. 2010..The 'biocultural synthesis' is a useful theoretical framework for viewing the findings. The Indians' pluralistic concepts have important implications for public health care workers and biomedical practitioners... - Family practitioners' attitudes and knowledge about irritable bowel syndrome: effect of a trial of physician educationGeorge F Longstreth
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, 4647 Zion Avenue, San Diego, CA 92120, USA
Fam Pract 20:670-4. 2003..Primary physicians care for most patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), but data on their attitudes and knowledge about the disorder are limited to research in the UK... - Quality of life in managed care patients with irritable bowel syndromeAlisa Wilson
Zynx Health Inc, Los Angeles, California, USA
Manag Care Interface 17:24-8, 34. 2004..2 +/- 35.4) and vitality (33.7 +/- 19.2). In multivariate regression models controlling for age, sex, work status and education, severity of abdominal discomfort/pain was a significant independent predictor of QoL... - Irritable bowel syndrome, health care use, and costs: a U.S. managed care perspectiveGeorge F Longstreth
Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, San Diego, California, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 98:600-7. 2003..The severity of abdominal pain/discomfort is a significant predictor of health care use and costs for patients with IBS compared with non-IBS subjects... - Results of computed tomography in family practitioners' patients with non-acute abdominal painSonali S Master
Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Plan, San Diego, California 92120, USA
Fam Pract 22:474-7. 2005..Positive and unrelated CT findings were equally prevalent, and the latter were not beneficial... - Chronic abdominal wall pain: clinical features, health care costs, and long-term outcomeChristopher D Costanza
Department of Gastroenterology and the Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, California, USA
Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2:395-9. 2004..Comorbidities are frequent, and health care use is high. Diagnosis is accurate and reduces health care costs. Over the long term, pain disappearance and persistence occurs in approximately equal proportions of patients... - Functional dyspepsia--managing the conundrumGeorge F Longstreth
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Diego, USA
N Engl J Med 354:791-3. 2006 - A questionnaire for the assessment of biliary symptomsYvonne Romero
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Outcomes Research Unit, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA
Am J Gastroenterol 98:1042-51. 2003..72 (range 0.32-0.86). CONCLUSIONS: The BSQ is reproducible and has good concurrent and discriminative validity for biliary symptoms. The abridged sBSQ has good reproducibility. These instruments may be useful in future outcome studies...