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Drossman D. Sp346: Overview of Rome IV: Changes in Criteria and New Educational Concepts. Presented at: Digestive Disease Week; May 21-24, 2016; San Diego.
The international, nonprofit Rome Foundation revealed the fourth edition of its diagnostic criteria for functional GI disorders at Digestive Disease Week, which provides a new definition for functional GI disorders and includes new adult and pediatric diagnoses and diagnostic changes for irritable bowel syndrome.
"The diagnostic criteria for functional GI and some motility disorders have gone through four editions, so the one that's just been released - Rome IV - is being published about 10 years after Rome III. It tries to incorporate the research that's been done since that time," William E. Whitehead, PhD, professor of medicine in the division of gastroenterology and hepatology and director of the University of North Carolina Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders, who has served on the Rome Foundation Board since its inception, said in a press release. "Our job was, in part, to develop a diagnostic questionnaire based on criteria that committees of experts developed for making these diagnoses. Developing these materials was a multi-year process...