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The Asian Working Team for FGIDs reviewed extensive literature and coordinated an Asian multi-national survey to obtain data that aided in the development of the Rome IV criteria. To support its goal, this Working Team focused efforts on creating a cultural adaptation of the Rome III Diagnostic Questionnaire, leading to the development of the Enhanced Asian Rome III Questionnaire (EAR3Q), which was then linguistically validated, showing that the EAR3Q is able to allocate diagnosis according to Rome III criteria. Because of the EAR3Q, future research and data on DBGIs can be more inclusive to the Asian population.

Publication

Development, Translation and Validation of Enhanced Asian Rome III Questionnaires for Diagnosis of Functional Bowel Diseases in Major Asian Languages: A Rome Foundation-Asian Neurogastroenterology and Motility Association Working Team Report
Ghoshal, U. C., Gwee, K. A., Chen, M., Gong, X. R., Pratap, N., Hou, X., Liang Li, C., Minhu, C.,
Miwa, H., Rahman, M., Rowshon, A., Ahmed, F., Kibria, M., Hasan, M. Whitehead, W. E.
(2015). J Neurogastroenterol Motil, 21(1), 83-92
Abstract

Members of the Working Team

Chair

Kok Ann Gwee, MBBS, FRCP
Department of Medicine
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Co-Chair

William Whitehead, MD, PhD
Center for Functional GI and Motility Disorders
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

Young-Tae Bak, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology
Korea University Guro Hospital
Seoul, South Korea

Andrew Chua, MBBCH, BAO, MRCP
Gastro Centre Ipoh
Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

Uday Ghoshal, MD
Department of Gastroenterology
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences
Lucknow, India

Sutep Gonlachanvit, MD, Prof.
GI Motility Research Unit, Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine
Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand

Xiao-Hua Hou, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Union Hospital of Tongji Medical College
Huazhong University of Science and Techonology
Wuhan, Hubei, China

Ching-Liang Lu, MD
Division of Gastroenterology
Taipei Veterans General Hospital
National Yang-Ming University
Taipei, Taiwan

Minhu Chen, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
The First Affiliated Hospital
Sun Yat-Sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Xiao R Gong, MD
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
The First Affiliated Hospital
Sun Yat-Sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Nitesh Pratap, MBBS
Asian Institute of Gastroenterology
Hyderabad, India

Murdani Abdullah, MD, PhD
Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Internal Medicine
Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital/Faculty of Medicine
University of Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia

Myung-Gyu  Choi, MD, PhD
Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Internal Medicine
Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital
The Catholic University of Korea
Seoul, Korea

Kewin TH Siah, MD
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
University Medicine Cluster
National University Hospital
Singapore

Lishou Xiong, MD, PhD
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
The First Affiliated Hospital
Sun Yat-Sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Kuck-Meng Chong, MD
Klinic Chong, Slim River
Perak, Malaysia

Ari F Syam, PhD, FACP
Division of Gastroenterology
Department of Internal Medicine
Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital/Faculty of Medicine
University of Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia

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