title: A basic audit: knowledge and attitudes of teaching and nonteaching surgeons towards colorectal cancer.
abstract: In order to determine surgeons' knowledge of colorectal cancer in New Zealand and to see whether this knowledge was related to clinical practice a questionnaire was sent to all general surgeons on the New Zealand Medical Register. One hundred and twenty-three responses were received and analysed. Surgeons involved in student teaching had a better knowledge of this cancer than their nonteaching colleagus. There was a significant association between knowledge and attitudes towards screening, polyp removal and occult blood testing.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Isbister
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Dent
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms; D003111:Colonic Polyps; D003113:Colonoscopy; D005180:Faculty, Medical / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009520:New Zealand; D009780:Occult Blood; D012004:Rectal Neoplasms; D012306:Risk; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors