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BMC Gastroenterology BioMed Central Research article Open Access A self administered reliable questionnaire to assess lower bowel symptoms 1 1 1 2 Barbara-Ann Adelstein* , Les Irwig , Petra Macaskill , Peter H Katelaris , 2 3 David B Jones and Les Bokey Address: 1Screening and Test Evaluation Program (STEP), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia, 2Gastroenterology Dept, Concord Hospital, University of Sydney, Australia and 3Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Concord Hospital, University of Sydney, Australia Email: Barbara-Ann Adelstein* - badelstein@.au; Les Irwig - lesi@.au; Petra Macaskill - lesi@.au; Peter H Katelaris - pkatelar@.au; David B Jones - hornsby@.au; Les Bokey - bokey@.au * Corresponding author Published: 1 March 2008 Received: 24 September 2007 Accepted: 1 March 2008 BMC Gastroenterology 2008, 8:8 doi:10.1186/1471-230X-8-8 This article is available from: /1471-230X/8/8 © 2008 Adelstein et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Bowel symptoms are considered indicators of the presence of colorectal cancer and other bowel diseases. Self administered questionnaires that elicit