The Modified Bristol Stool Form Scale

The Bristol scale - a useful system to assess stool form?

Brazilian Portuguese translation, cross-cultural adaptation and reproducibility assessment of the modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children.

OBJECTIVE To translate and culturally adapt the modified Bristol Stool Form Scale for children into Brazilian Portuguese, and to evaluate the reproducibility of the translated version. METHODS The stage of translation and cross-cultural adaptation was performed according to an internationally accepted methodology, including the translation, back-translation, and pretest application of the tra...

The Bristol Stool Form Scale: its translation to Portuguese, cultural adaptation and validation.

UNLABELLED The Bristol Stool Form Scale is used for describing feces. The objective of this research was its translation, cultural adaptation and validation for Brazil. The methodology was translation, back-translation and discussion. Validation involved 85 nurses, 80 doctors, and 80 patients, who correlated images of seven types of feces with the descriptions. RESULTS there was a difference ...

1626The relationship of Bristol Stool Scale to Clostridium difficile infection

Adaptation and validation of the Bristol scale stool form translated into the Spanish language among health professionals and patients.

BACKGROUND stool type represents an important semiologic part of medical interviews. The Bristol Scale Stool Form is a clinical tool to evaluate stool consistency and form. The aim of this study was to translate and adapt the Bristol Scale Stool Form into Spanish. Differences in validation results between health professionals and patients surveyed were also evaluated. METHODS the study popula...