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World J Gastroenterol. May 21, 2016; 22(19): 4757-4765
Published online May 21, 2016. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i19.4757
Published online May 21, 2016. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i19.4757
Table 1 Characteristics of the survey respondents n (%)
| Characteristic | n = 844 |
| Age, mean ± SD (range) | 36.1 ± 9.2 (19-81) |
| Gender, male | 395 (46.8) |
| Region | |
| North West | 211 (32.7) |
| North | 152 (23.6) |
| East | 100 (15.5) |
| North East | 83 (12.9) |
| South West | 68 (10.5) |
| South Central | 31 (4.8) |
| Missing data | 199 |
| Education | |
| College degree | 295 (35.0) |
| Postgraduate degree | 341 (40.4) |
| Doctoral degree | 188 (22.3) |
| Post-doctoral degree | 19 (2.3) |
| Professional title | |
| Resident physician | 291 (34.6) |
| Attending physician | 210 (24.9) |
| Associated chief physician | 198 (23.5) |
| Chief physician | 143 (17.0) |
| Level of hospital | |
| Community hospital | 15 (1.8) |
| Secondary hospital | 88 (10.4) |
| Tertiary hospital | 737 (87.3) |
| Profession | |
| Gastroenterologist | 647 (76.7) |
| General surgeons | 49 (5.8) |
| Endocrinologist | 28 (3.3) |
| Others | 120 (14.2) |
| Working time in gastroenterology (yr) | |
| < 2 | 295 (35.3) |
| 3-5 | 111 (13.3) |
| 6-10 | 106 (12.7) |
| 10-20 | 188 (22.5) |
| > 20 | 135 (16.2) |
- Citation: Ren RR, Sun G, Yang YS, Peng LH, Wang SF, Shi XH, Zhao JQ, Ban YL, Pan F, Wang XH, Lu W, Ren JL, Song Y, Wang JB, Lu QM, Bai WY, Wu XP, Wang ZK, Zhang XM, Chen Y. Chinese physicians’ perceptions of fecal microbiota transplantation. World J Gastroenterol 2016; 22(19): 4757-4765
- URL: https://www.wjgnet.com/1007-9327/full/v22/i19/4757.htm
- DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.3748/wjg.v22.i19.4757