Performance and qualities of an ideal marker
| Performance | Qualities |
|---|---|
| IBD, inflammatory bowel disease. | |
| • Simple | Be disease specific: identify individuals at risk for IBD and differentiate IBD from non-IBD |
| • Easy to perform | Able to objectively measure disease activity |
| • Not or minimally invasive | Able to predict the disease course (relapse or recurrence) |
| • Cheap | Able to monitor the effect of treatment |
| • Rapid | Have a prognostic value in assessing morbidity/mortality |
| • Reproducible between labs and individuals | |