Low awareness but positive attitudes toward fecal transplantation in ontario physicians

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 30-32

  Dennis, Madison ^a   Salpeter, Mary Jane ^b   Hota, Susy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fecal transplantation; Physician attitudes; Physician health literacy; Recurrent Clostridium difficile infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FECAL TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; GASTROENTEROLOGIST; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; INTERNIST; MALE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENT INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84923315429     PISSN: 17129532     EISSN: 19181493     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/496437     Document Type: Article

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