Table 4.

Key qualitative themes

	Key qualitative themes
1.	Some clinicians had the view that CD is commonly found incidentally and that the majority of patients are asymptomatic and do not require medical interventions.
2.	Most doctors believed that the input of a gastroenterologist is only required for confirming the diagnosis of CD. They suggested that all coeliac patients should then be managed in the community or by a dietitian.
3.	It was often suggested that the impact on a coeliac patient’s quality of life is due to their dietary restrictions and lifestyle changes, rather than the burden of their symptoms. There was a suggestion that IBD patients suffer more from their symptoms.
4.	Doctors suggested that patients with severe and persisting symptoms have a worse quality of life than those with IBD, however, in their opinion, there were few patients with significant symptoms of CD compared with those with IBD.

CD, coeliac disease; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease.