title: American college of gastroenterology monograph on the management of irritable bowel syndrome.
abstract: This editorial reviews a recently published guideline on management of irritable bowel syndrome. The guideline illustrates problems arising from the quality of clinical trials used in systematic reviews and the potential impact of the inherent weaknesses of those trials on rating the strength of evidence and the resulting recommendations.
authors.affiliation: Mayo Clinic , Charlton 8-110, 200 First St. S.W. Rochester, MN 55905 , USA +1 507 266 2305 ; camilleri.michael@mayo.edu.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Camilleri
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D043183:Irritable Bowel Syndrome / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012952:Societies; D014481:United States
keywords: American college of gastroenterology; GRADE; evidence; guidelines; irritable bowel syndrome; medications