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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The [[risk factors]] of [[chronic diarrhea]] can be assessed based on [[epidemiological]] associations and the [[patient]]'s characteristics. Some of these factors can be classified based on [[Traveler's diarrhea|travel history]], [[epidemics]] and [[outbreaks]], patients with [[AIDS|acquired immune deficiency syndrome]], and whether the [[patients]] are institutionalized or hospitalized. | The [[risk factors]] of [[chronic diarrhea]] can be assessed based on [[epidemiological]] associations and the [[patient]]'s characteristics. Some of these factors can be classified based on [[Traveler's diarrhea|travel history]], [[epidemics]] and [[outbreaks]], patients with [[AIDS|acquired immune deficiency syndrome]], and whether the [[patients]] are institutionalized or hospitalized. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 04:24, 6 February 2018
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Omodamola Aje B.Sc, M.D. [2]
Overview
The risk factors of chronic diarrhea can be assessed based on epidemiological associations and the patient's characteristics. Some of these factors can be classified based on travel history, epidemics and outbreaks, patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and whether the patients are institutionalized or hospitalized.