Stool Form Scale as a Useful Guide to Intestinal Transit Time

Stool form scales are a simple method of assessing intestinal transit rate but are not widely used in clinical practice or research, possibly because of the lack of evidence that they are responsive to changes in transit time. We set out to assess the responsiveness of the Bristol stool form scale to change in transit time.Sixty-six volunteers had their whole-gut transit time (WGTT) measured with radiopaque marker pellets and their stools...