Irritable Bowel Syndrome Diagnosis and Management – ACG Guidelines (2021)

Recent advances in diagnostics and therapeutics for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) have led the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) to develop the first-ever clinical guideline for IBS management using the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) methodology. Clinically significant questions were assessed after a comprehensive literature search. Overview -   Six diagnostic recommendations (table 1) -   Three non-recommendations (table 3) focused on diagnostic testing -   Eleven therapeutic recommendations on therapeutic options (table 2) -   Five non-recommendations (table 4) on therapeutic options. Table 1 .

Diagnostic recommendations Table 2 . Therapeutic recommendations  Table 3 . Diagnostics non-recommendations Table 4 . Therapeutics non-recommendations IBS causes a significant burden to the health care system globally due to high…