An office guide to whole-gut transit time. Patients' recollection of their stool form.

Forty-seven patients (ages 17-74 years, 33 women) who had irritable bowel syndrome and who attended a gastroenterology clinic had their whole-gut transit time (WGTT) assessed by an abdominal radiograph after ingesting 20 radioopaque markers on 4 consecutive days. Immediately afterward, the patients