Poor Correlation Between Clinical Disease Activity and Mucosal Inflammation, and the Role of Psychological Comorbidity, in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

摘要

OBJECTIVES: There is a move toward patient-reported outcome measures as end points in clinical trials of novel therapies for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, the association between patient-reported symptoms and mucosal inflammation, and the influence of psychological factors, remains unclear. We examined this in a secondary care population.