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| October 01, 2001 | Kubetin, Sally Koch | COPYRIGHT 2001 International Medical News Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Psychosocial as well as medical management is needed for that small subset of inflammatory bowel disease patients with vague clinical findings who consume excess service with poor outcome, according to a study conducted at Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.

Dr. T.M. Vallis reported at the Canadian Digestive Diseases Week on a comparison of psychosocial factors in 15 dysfunctional inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients with those in 17 typical IBD patients and 17 matched healthy controls. Among the ...

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