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GONZALEZ, JC. ÍNDICE DE CORRELACIÓN DE SEVERIDAD DE LOS SÍNTOMAS DE LA ENFERMEDAD DE REFLUJO GASTROESOFÁGICO PARA EL DIAGNÓSTICO CLÍNICO DE ESOFAGITIS. RFM [online]. 2005, vol.28, n.2, pp.169-177. ISSN 0798-0469.

The gastroesophageal reflux disease it is a chronic illness of the esophagus where the diagnose clinical based on their symptoms has great importance, but it is not enough to diagnose esophagitis, in turn the exploratory methods as the upper gastrointestinal endoscopy can diagnose esophagitis in alone 50 % of the patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease. This work contributes the use of an index of correlation of severity of the symptoms for the clinical diagnose of esophgitis in patient with the diagnose clinical of gastroesophageal reflux disease, the index of correlation has a high sensibility, specificity and probability for the patients with moderate and severe index of correlation.

Palavras-chave : Gastroesophageal reflux disease.