Garg incontinence scores: New scoring system on the horizon to evaluate fecal incontinence. Will it make a difference?

Table 2 Vaizey’s scoring[25]

	Never	Rarely	Sometimes	Weekly	Daily
Solid stool incontinence	0	1	2	3	4
Liquid stool incontinence	0	1	2	3	4
Gas incontinence	0	1	2	3	4
Alteration in lifestyle	0	1	2	3	4
	No	Yes
Need to wear a pad or plug	0	2
Constipating medication	0	2
Lack of ability to defer defecation for 15 min	0	4

Never: No episodes in last 4 wk; rarely: 1 episode in last 4 wk; sometimes: ≥ 1 in last 4 wk but < 1/wk; weekly: ≥ 1/wk to < 1/d; always: ≥ 1/d. Citation: Garg P, Sudol-Szopinska I, Kolodziejczak M, Bhattacharya K, Kaur G. New objective scoring system to clinically assess fecal incontinence. World J Gastroenterol 2023; 29: 4593-4603. Copyright ©The Authors 2020. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved.