Advances of Research on Patient-reported Outcome Scales for Inflammatory Bowel Disease / 胃肠病学

ABSTRACT

With the transform of bio-psycho-social medical model, the research on patients’subjective feelings, that is, patient-reported outcome (PRO), has received increasing attention, which plays an important role in the monitoring of patients’disease progression and the guidance for clinical diagnosis and treatment. This article reviewed the current PRO scales commonly used in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), aiming to help medical staff choosing an assessment tool suitable for IBD patients, to promote the application and development of IBD-PRO scale, to optimize the disease management of IBD patients, and to provide reference for its application in clinical treatment of IBD.