Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index (SCCAI)

Simple Clinical Colitis Activity Index (Walmsley 1998): six domains, 0-19; a score >= 5 indicates active ulcerative colitis.

Open the calculator → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.

Example

Bowel frequency, daytime
2
Bowel frequency, night
1
Urgency of defecation
1
Blood in stool
1
General wellbeing
1
Extracolonic manifestations
0

Result: SCCAI 6 of 19 — active disease (>= 5).

The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.

What the result means

< 5
Remission.
>= 5
Active ulcerative colitis (day/night frequency, urgency, blood, wellbeing, extracolonic; 0-19). An activity index, not a diagnosis.

What you enter

  • Bowel frequency, daytime
  • Bowel frequency, night
  • Urgency of defecation
  • Blood in stool
  • General wellbeing
  • Extracolonic manifestations
How this is calculated

Walmsley RS, Ayres RC, Pounder RE, Allan RN. A simple clinical colitis activity index. Gut. 1998;43(1):29-32. Read the source ↗

A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.

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