Pharmacological- and non-pharmacological therapeutic approaches in inflammatory bowel disease in adults

Table 3 Crohn’s disease activity index scoring system

Clinical or laboratory variable	Multiplication factor
Number of liquid or soft stools each day for seven days	× 2
Abdominal pain (graded from 0-3 on severity) each day for seven days	× 5
General wellbeing, subjectively assessed from 0 (well) to 4 (terrible) each day for seven days	× 7
Presence of complications1	× 20
Taking Lomotil or opiates for diarrhea	× 30
Presence of an abdominal mass (0 as none, 2 as questionable, 5 as definite)	× 10
Hematocrit of < 47% in men and < 42% in women	× 6
Percentage deviation from standard weight	× 1

¹One point each is added for each set of complications.