Research Article

The Relationship between Gender, Severity of Disease, Treatment Type, and Employment Outcome in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Israel

Table 4

Disease severity questionnaire.

Year:
Disease activity:This yearOne year agoTwo years ago

No Symptoms-0

Mild Symptoms-1

Medium Symptoms-2

Active Disease- 3

Hospitalization- 4

Surgery- 5

Stoma- 5

(a) Highest score

Treatment:

No Treatment-0

5-ASA or Antibiotics-1

Low dose steroids-2

Steroids-3

Immunosuppresive-4

Biologics-5

(b) Sum of treatments

Total year score (a+b)