Functional gastrointestinal disorders among healthcare professionals at a tertiary Australian hospital.

Background And Aim: The aim of this study was to determine the frequency, characteristics, and associations of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs) among healthcare professionals.

Methods: A qualitative survey was conducted among the staff at a tertiary Australian hospital between January 2017 and June 2018. Rome III criteria (excluding endoscopic) were used to define FGID.

Randomised clinical trial: adjunctive induction therapy with oral effervescent budesonide in newly diagnosed coeliac disease.

Background: The healing of the mucosal lesion in patients with coeliac disease is slow.

Aim: To determine whether concurrent budesonide and gluten-free diet hasten small bowel healing and symptomatic improvement in patients with newly diagnosed coeliac disease.

Methods: In a pilot, randomised, double-blind trial, effects on Marsh grading and quantitative duodenal morphometry of 10 weeks' effervescent budesonide (initially 9 mg/day) or placebo were assessed after 8 and 52 weeks.