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Abstract

–  Many of the childhood functional gastrointestinal disorders are extremely common.
–  Using symptom-based diagnostic criteria for pediatric functional gastrointestinal disorders will improve patient care, enhance family satisfaction, and reduce costs.
–  Using symptom-based diagnoses, the emphasis shifts from evaluations to rule out rare diseases to family education and symptom management.
–  Well-meaning clinicians may co-create disability by failure to recognize and appropriately manage functional pediatric gastrointestinal disorders.

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