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The Montreal Definition and Classification of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: A Global Evidence-Based Consensus

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Novel aspects of the new definition include a patient-centered approach that is independent of endoscopic findings, subclassification of the disease into discrete syndrome, and the recognition of laryngitis, cough, asthma, and dental erosions as possible GERD syndromes.
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This article is published in The American Journal of Gastroenterology.The article was published on 2006-07-30. It has received 3328 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Impedance–pH monitoring & Esophageal pH monitoring.

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Eosinophilic esophagitis in children and adults: a systematic review and consensus recommendations for diagnosis and treatment.

TL;DR: A multidisciplinary task force of 31 physicians assembled with the goal of determining diagnostic criteria and making recommendations for evaluation and treatment of children and adults with suspected eosinophilic esophagitis (EE) provided current recommendations for care of affected patients.
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Defining consensus: A systematic review recommends methodologic criteria for reporting of Delphi studies

TL;DR: Investigation of how consensus is operationalized in Delphi studies and the role of consensus in determining the results of these studies finds definitions of consensus vary widely and are poorly reported.
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Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

TL;DR: The following guideline will provide an overview of GERD and its presentation, and recommendations for the approach to diagnosis and management of this common and important disease.
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Update on the epidemiology of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: a systematic review

TL;DR: GERD is prevalent worldwide, and disease burden may be increasing, and prevalence estimates show considerable geographic variation, but only East Asia shows estimates consistently lower than 10%.
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Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations.

TL;DR: A system for grading the quality of evidence and the strength of recommendations that can be applied across a wide range of interventions and contexts is developed, and a summary of the approach from the perspective of a guideline user is presented.
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the delphi method: techniques and applications

TL;DR: The present model clarifies some of the conceptual problems associated with cross-impact analysis, and supplies a relatively sound basis for revising probability estimates in the limited case where interactions can be approximated by relative probabilities.
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Symptomatic Gastroesophageal Reflux as a Risk Factor for Esophageal Adenocarcinoma

TL;DR: There is a strong and probably causal relation between gastroesophageal reflux and esophageaal adenocarcinoma, and the relation between reflux And gastric cardia is relatively weak.
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Rising incidence of adenocarcinoma of the esophagus and gastric cardia.

TL;DR: Cancer incidence data from nine areas of the United States revealed steadily rising rates from 1976 to 1987 of adenocarcinomas of the esophagus and gastric cardia, which disproportionately affected white men and rarely occurred among women.
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Changing patterns in the incidence of esophageal and gastric carcinoma in the United States

TL;DR: The authors update the incidence trends through 1994 and further consider the trends by age group.
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