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	Scala GERD Health-Related Quality of Life	Criteri Diagnostici Roma IV per la Sindrome dell'Intestino Irritabile
Campo	Gastroenterologia	Gastroenterologia
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1996	2016
Ideatore	Velanovich, V., Zhang, Y., Hollis, J. B., et al.	Rome Foundation (multinational expert consensus)
Tipo	Self-report	Diagnostic Criteria
Fonte seminale	Velanovich, V., Zhang, Y., Hollis, J. B., Feldman, M. I., Sampliner, R., Guan, W., & Escamilla, C. (1996). Presenting symptoms and outcome measures in reflux esophagitis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 41(10), 1865–1873.	Mearin, F., Lacy, B. E., Chang, L., et al. (2016). Bowel disorders. Gastroenterology. Published online June 2016 by the Rome Foundation.
Alias	GERD-HRQL, GERD-HRQoL	Rome IV IBS, Rome Criteria
Correlati	4	4
Sintesi	The GERD Health-Related Quality of Life Scale (GERD-HRQL) is a concise, validated patient-reported outcome measure for assessing the symptomatic and functional impact of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Developed by Velanovich and colleagues in 1996, the 9-item GERD-HRQL measures heartburn frequency and severity, regurgitation, and impact on sleep and medication use. The scale is highly responsive to proton pump inhibitor (PPI) therapy and is widely used in GERD trials and clinical practice.	The Rome IV criteria are the internationally accepted diagnostic standard for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), published in 2016 by the Rome Foundation. These criteria define IBS as recurrent abdominal pain (≥1 day per week for ≥3 months) associated with altered bowel habits, without structural or biochemical abnormalities. IBS is subtyped into four patterns—IBS-constipation predominant (IBS-C), IBS-diarrhea predominant (IBS-D), IBS-mixed (IBS-M), and IBS-unclassified (IBS-U)—based on stool consistency patterns.