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    Attention COACH STUDY participants:

    The principal investigators of the study request that you use the official version of the modified score here.

    Bristol Stool Form Scale

    Classifies stool (correlates with intestinal transit time).
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    Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
    Sausage-shaped but lumpy
    Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
    Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
    Soft blobs with clear-cut edges (passed easily)
    Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
    Watery, no solid pieces, entirely liquid

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    Dr. Stephen J. Lewis

    About the Creator

    Stephen J. Lewis, MD, MB ChB (Aber), BSc(Hons), FRCP, is a gastroenterologist at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth, United Kingdom and an affiliate of the Bristol Nutrition Biomedical Research Unit in Bristol. He trained in infectious diseases at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London and worked with medical charities in West Africa. Dr. Lewis’ primary research interests include perioperative nutrition, infectious disease, irritable bowel syndrome, malabsorption, and intestinal infections.

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