Love Thy Neighbor? Exploring Gastroenterology Attitudes Toward Endometriosis Screening

Overview

Journal Dig Dis Sci

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 2024 Nov 21

PMID 39570538

Authors

Yuying Luo

Xiao Jing Wang

Laurie A Keefer

Madison Simons

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Abstract

Endometriosis is a chronic painful condition affecting 10% of reproductive-aged women with a high prevalence of overlapping gastrointestinal symptoms. There is a significant diagnostic delay for endometriosis and current screening practices for endometriosis in gastroenterology clinic populations have not been evaluated. 112 gastroenterology providers (57.5% females, 64.3% physicians) completed an anonymized exploratory survey (40.1% response rate). Most respondents (59.4%) currently do not screen for endometriosis, but the majority (72.1%) reported they would be "extremely likely" or "somewhat likely" to screen for endometriosis after being presented with data on the high prevalence of chronic GI symptoms in patients with endometriosis.

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