finds that caps adoption leads to a 4 percents decrease in surgeries, a 2 percent decrease in hospital admissions but has no …

). Methods: Two HRQOL instruments were administered by telephone interviews to a sample of 253 IBS French patients recruited from … the general population. IBS was diagnosed according to the Manning, Rome I and Rome II criteria. Patients with organic …, the IBSQOL, were used. Results: Patients with IBS had statistically significant (P < 0.05) lower scores for all SF-36 QOL …