Table 2

Symptom: frequency (ranked by proportion of patients with the symptom in the patient-doctor agreement study)

Patient-Doctor Study
 Patient-Patient Study


Patient
 Doctor
 Patient (first questionnaire)


Symptom present
 %
 Symptom present
 %
 Symptom present
 %
PR Bleeding
 55
 45
 54
 44
 53
 38
Abdominal pain
 53
 45
 48
 40
 69
 50
Change Bowel Habit
 52
 43
 50
 41
 65
 46
Fatigue
 39
 34
 39
 32
 47
 34
Urgency
 45
 41
 37
 32
 50
 37
Incomplete Evacuation
 42
 38
 32
 27
 60
 44
Anal pain*
 15
 26
 13
 21
 19
 26
Weight loss
 18
 16
 21
 17
 21
 15
Anal lump
 23
 20
 14
 11
 17
 12
Mucus
 14
 12
 18
 15
 21
 15
Anaemia
 9
 8
 7
 6
 17
 12
Abdominal lump
 7
 6
 3
 2
 6
 4

Notes: For the patient-doctor agreement study, n = 122 except for missing responses (maximum 8) or where indicated by asterisk; for patient-patient study n = 141, except for missing responses (maximum 7) or where indicated by asterisk.

*for the patient-doctor study: n = 61 (based only on the second phase questionnaire) except for missing responses (maximum 4); for patient-patient study, n = 73 (based only on the second phase questionnaire) except for missing responses (maximum 1)

Adelstein et al. BMC Gastroenterology 2008 8:8   doi:10.1186/1471-230X-8-8