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History and Definition of the Rome Criteria

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In 1996, a team of pediatric gastroenterologists put together for the first time all the disorders of the digestive system that they thought would be of functional origin in infants and children. Using their experience, they established the criteria by consensus after reviewing the literature. The Rome criteria for pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders were born and published in 1999. This initiative was inspired and supported by the adult team that published the first Rome criteria for adults in 1990. The pediatric criteria were later revised by two teams of pediatric gastroenterologists, including a psychologist, and published in 2006. The criteria were grouped according to age and divided in two categories, one pertaining to infants and toddlers and the other one to children and adolescents. They were also classified according to digestive complaint instead of anatomical region.

Using the criteria, an increasing number of clinical and research studies on functional gastrointestinal disorders in children have been published, allowing comparisons of results from different parts of the world. The criteria also brought tremendous support to both the clinician and the patient by providing a positive diagnosis and allowing comparisons between different approaches and treatments in children selected accordingly.

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Pediatrics Department, Chu Ste Justine, University of Montreal, 3175 Cote Ste Catherine, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3T-1C5

    Andrée Rasquin M.D.

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  1. Sainte-Justine Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, H3T 1C5, Québec, Canada

    Christophe Faure

  2. Nationwide Children's Hospital, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43205, Ohio, USA

    Carlo Di Lorenzo

  3. Gastroenterology and Neural Development, University College London, Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, WC1N 1EH, United Kingdom

    Nikhil Thapar

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Rasquin, A. (2013). History and Definition of the Rome Criteria. In: Faure, C., Di Lorenzo, C., Thapar, N. (eds) Pediatric Neurogastroenterology. Clinical Gastroenterology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-709-9_29

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