title: [Diagnosis by a system of addition in irritable colon syndrome].
abstract: It carried through a study, in two stage, in 50 patients of ambulatory consultation of gastroenterology, to estimate the efficiency of the question for the diagnostic by addition, for the irritable bowel syndrome, in the period between August 1985 - August 1987. In the first place, its appraised the efficiency of the system by addition in a group of selective patients, subsequently the questions in the no selective patients. There is, for the first place a high sensibility, specificity and favourite values. In the second place, the obtained values are not significative. It appraised the introduction of modifications in the question. As a conclusion: 1) the system by addition in a group of selective patients has a high efficiency in the diagnostic, 2) the system in no selective patients has not diagnostic values, 3) it is important to carried out a study to exclude the: "history of blood in faecal material" and to include the age and sex, and 4) the system by addition not allow to distinguished the irritable bowel syndrome and the organic disease.
authors.affiliation: Consultorio Externo de Gastroenterología, Hospital Municipal Lincoln,Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Bolzán
mesh_terms: D003109:Colonic Diseases, Functional / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
vernacular_title: Diagnóstico por un sistema de suma del síndrome de intestino irritable.