Table 10 Usefulness of stool specimen guidance to GPs in patients with diarrhoea

GP1

“It might be useful if they added on to the bottom of the reports ‘Please see such and such for up to date guidance on stool specimens or whatever.”

GP11

“Some written guidance is always helpful. I’m quite sort of electronic, so I think electronic, the intranet really, or the internet.”

GP7

“I think I’d want that as guidance that we could maybe scan onto the computer onto the protocol part of the computer, and we could look it up..... We have various protocols of that sort … on the computer anyway. … The fact that they’re on the computer means I can access them quite easily. I don’t have to remember where I’ve put the bit of paper.”