Developed by:
Donald L Patrick, Douglas Drossman, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (USA)

Objective:
To assess the impact of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and its treatment

Copyright:
The IBS-QOL was developed by a team of researchers from the University of Washington, Seattle under the direction of Dr. DL Patrick and Dr. D Drossman with sponsorship from Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Authors hold joint copyright over the IBS-QOL and all its translations.

Reference publication:
Patrick DL, Drossman DA, Frederick IO, DiCesare J, Puder KL. Quality of life in persons with irritable bowel syndrome: development and validation of a new measure. Dig Dis Sci 1998; 43:400-11.

Conditions of use:

1. User Agreement:

User is required to complete and sign a User Agreement in which specific conditions requested by the Authors are detailed.

2. Distribution fees are requested according to the study design and context of use of the questionnaire:

- In not-funded academic research (1) and individual clinical practice: free of charge

- In funded academic research (2): 300 €* per study + 50 €* per language-version requested

- In commercial studies (3) involving "for-profit" organizations: 600 €* per study + 250 €* per language version requested

* excluding VAT

(1) Not funded academic research: if the project is not explicitly funded, but funding comes from overall departmental funds or from the University or individual funds then fees are waived.

(2) Funded academic research: projects receiving funding from commerce, government, EU should anticipate paying the corresponding fees.

(3) Commercial studies (industry, CRO, any for-profit companies).


Review copy:

Original US English version available for review purpose only.Please click here to access.


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Please have the User Agreement completed, dated and signed and return one original copy to MAPI Research Trust by post. As soon as we receive it, we will process your request.

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