Guidelines Developed for Treating Chronic Idiopathic Constipation - Physician's Weekly

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Guidelines Developed for Treating Chronic Idiopathic Constipation  Physician's Weekly

The multidisciplinary guideline panel agreed on 10 recommendations for pharmacological management of CIC. These included strong recommendations for use of polyethylene glycol, sodium picosulfate, linaclotide, plecanatide, and prucalopride, based on moderate certainty of evidence. Conditional recommendations, based on low or very low certainty of evidence, were made for fiber supplementation, lactulose, senna, magnesium oxide, and lubiprostone.

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