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One hundred seventy-eight individuals of both genders aged 16—80 years who consecutively entered our outpatient clinic were enrolled.
One third in each group had never experienced any of the offered medical positionings. The majority of patients The medical profession is authorized to use the proctological positioning that allows the most reliable anal diagnoses. Keywords: anal bleeding, anal itch, anal pain, proctological positioning, pruritus ani, hemorrhoids, benign anal diseases. Positioning of patients for proctological assessment when anal bleeding, itch, or pain occurs may not belong to the major fields of interest of medical doctors but it might be essential for the reliability of diagnosis.
It is said that patients seem to prefer the recumbent position to the knee—chest position. We asked patients with and without anal complaints what they think about positioning for a proctological examination.
We compared the three groups for their demographic items and their answers to the questionnaire. We checked the first 1, titles and did not find one paper concerned with proctology. None of these were concerned with positioning of patients for proctological examination. For categorical-level variables, contingency tables were analyzed with the corresponding Pearson chi-squared statistic.
