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. 2020 Jan 20;13(3):760–769. doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.13536

Table 2.

Definition of each target and scoring method.

Target Scoring method
1 0
Abdominal pain Baseline: Mild, moderate or severe pain (a) No abdominal pain; (b) degree of pain decreased from severe to mild
Post‐FMT: Degree of pain from severe to moderate, from moderate to mild, unchanged or aggravated compared to baseline
Diarrhoea Baseline: Liquid stool (a) No liquid stool; (b) frequency of liquid stool decreased from 2 to 1,> 2 to 0 ~ 2; (3) frequency of liquid stool decreased by 80% if > 10
Post‐FMT: Frequency of liquid stool unchanged or increased compared to baseline
Hematochezia Blood in the stool No blood in the stool
Fever Fever (≥37.3 degree centigrade) No fever (<37.3 degree centigrade)
Steroid‐dependence (a) Relapse within 3 months of stopping steroids; (b) unable to reduce steroids below the equivalent of prednisone 10 mg day−1 within 3 months of starting steroids, without recurrent active disease (a) Clinical remission without use of steroids; (b) steroids ceased for more than 3 months without relapse
Enterocutaneous fistula Fistula drainage (a) Closure of fistula; (b) no fistula drainage
Active perianal fistula Moderate or substantial mucous or purulent discharge (a) Closure of fistula; (b) a reduction in the number of draining fistulas by 50% compared to baseline

Definition: 1 = With any target at baseline; or matching any criteria for more than 20% of time between two serial assessment time points; 0 = Without target at baseline; or matching any criteria for more than 80% of time between two serial assessment time points.