Houston Consensus Conference on Testing for Helicobacter pylori Infection in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Despite guidelines for detection and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection, recommendations to test patients before and after therapy are commonly not followed in the United States. At the Houston Consensus Conference, 11 experts on management of adult and pediatric patients with H pylori, from different geographic regions of the United States, met to discuss key factors in diagnosis of H pylori infection, including identification of appropriate patients for testing, effects of antibiotic susceptibility on testing and treatment, appropriate methods for confirmation of infection and eradication, and relevant health system considerations. The experts divided into groups that used a modified Delphi panel approach to assess appropriate patients for testing, testing for antibiotic suscepti

SUBMITTER: El-Serag HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6913173 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature