Love Thy Neighbor? Exploring Gastroenterology Attitudes Toward Endometriosis Screening

Endometriosis is a chronic painful condition affecting 10% of reproductive-aged women with a high prevalence of overlapping gastrointestinal symptoms. There is a significant diagnostic delay for endometriosis and current screening practices for endometriosis in gastroenterology clinic populations have not been evaluated. 112 gastroenterology providers (57.5% females, 64.3% physicians) completed an anonymized exploratory survey (40.1% response rate). Most respondents (59.4%) currently do not screen for endometriosis, but the majority (72.1%) reported they would be “extremely likely” or “somewhat likely” to screen for endometriosis after being presented with data on the high prevalence of chronic GI symptoms in patients with endometriosis. Similar content being viewed by others Data availability No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

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