IBD Primary Care Toolkit

Considerations for undiagnosed patients

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Facilitation tools for IBD screening and identification

Clinical tools: Screening questions/tools to support earlier diagnosis of IBD

Current status

There are no validated screening questions or tools available. However, the following tools may be useful in the primary care setting:

CalproQuest

An 8-item IBD questionnaire for primary care that assesses if further testing may be needed. Although it requires further validation, its feasibility was assessed through one study.

IBD-REFER criteria

Ten core criteria suggesting when to consider referral to a gastroenterologist. The development and validation study used a Delphi process to identify major and minor criteria indicating the need for follow‑up.

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IBD Primary Care Toolkit

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Last updated in March 2026.
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