Table 1.

Clinicians’opinions on informing patients about FMT

(1) Possible reasons for recommending FMT which will inform patients are (n = 96):
Clinical efficacy	88%
Safety	64%
Failure of conventional treatment	20%
“natural” and “organic”	30%
Avoidance of antibiotics	11%
(2) Possible reasons for not recommending FMT and will inform patients are (n = 16):
Unproven treatment and unknown mechanism	22%
Long-term risk and safety unknown	27%
Infections	19%
High expectation from patients and pressure on physicians	33%
Not standard treatment, easily cause medical litigation	14%
(3) Which statement do you agree with regarding media portrayal of FMT as “magic” and “miracle” (n = 100)?
This will mislead patients to unrealistic high expectations and neglect risk	70%
This would not affect patients as they are capable of making autonomous decisions	14%
I do not care, anyway patients would be informed by the informed consent form	16%