Monthly Archives: March, 2015

Clinical Trial: Assessing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Irritable Bowel Syndrome University of Southampton, UK, 2015

The University of Southampton, in collaboration with Kings College, London, has an ongoing multi-center clinical trial begun in 2013 and expected to be published in 2018 comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of therapist cognitive behavioral therapy and lower intensity web-based cognitive behavioral therapy for people with refractory irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). A total of …

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NICE Guidelines in the United Kingdom for Adult Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Updated for 2015

Last month, February 2015, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, formerly the National Institute for Clinical Excellence and still widely known by its original acronym NICE, released revised guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of adults with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in the United Kingdom. NICE’s stated goal is to provide evidence-based information …

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