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Lead Authors: Pantelis Karatzas , Steven Jeuring 

Senior Author: Paolo Gionchetti

Welcome to the interactive case - IBD in elderly

This course has been developed for gastroenterologists, surgeons, pathologists and other interdisciplinary medical experts interested in Inflammatory Bowel Disease(s) (IBD). One major aim of ECCO’s e-Learning activity is to increase competence and knowledge with regard to the management of IBD patients and to harmonise diagnostics and treatment of elderly patients with IBD in order to improve patient outcomes.

Duration: The estimated duration of the course is approximately 20-30 minutes.

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ECCO Members can take this course: In case you are not an ECCO Member or have not yet paid the annual member fee, please become an ECCO Member / renew your Membership.


Learning Outcomes:

  • Be familiar with the diagnosis and management of IBD in elderly patients

Course Instructions:

Welcome to this Interactive Course on IBD in elderly

  • You will be asked a series of questions throughout this short case
  • Both correct and incorrect answers will have short feedback as to why the answer was right or wrong as well as links to references, and presentations and podcasts which are found in the e-Library
  • You are allowed as many attempts as it takes to get a correct answer before moving on to the next question
  • If you wish to skip a question and come back later, there is a quiz navigation in the upper right corner (numbers stand for question numbers, "i" stands for information page, which is usually a "case continued" page)

Duration of the course

    • The estimated duration of the course is approximately 20-30 minutes
    • Upon successful completion of the training, you will be directed to a final test

Futher Information:

Organisation: European Crohn's and Colitis Organisation - ECCO

Website: www.ecco-lbd.eu

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