Rome IV Criteria for Functional Abdominal Pain NOS in a Pediatric Patient

Patient selection: pediatric patient with abdominal pain

Criteria for functional abdominal pain NOS:

(1) episodic or continuous abdominal pain

(2) >= 4 episodes per month

(3) symptoms present for >= 2 months

(4) pain does not occur solely in association with a physiologic event (eating, etc)

(5) unable to diagnosis other functional disorders (irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia, abdominal migraine)

(6) no evidence of an cause for the abdominal pain identified after an appropriate evaluation