Rome II Diagnostic Criteria for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
Official Rome II criteria for the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome.
The Rome IV Criteria are now recommended as an update to these criteria (May 2016).
Advice
The Rome Criteria are helpful in classifying patients and for determining potential therapies.
Management
We are unaware of validated management algorithms using the Rome Criteria.
Critical Actions
IBS is a ‘rule-out’ diagnosis, which is to say all other possibilities must be ruled out first.