Lumbar puncture: low-cost interventions improve efficiency and patient experience
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Lumbar puncture: low-cost interventions improve efficiency and patient experience.
We conducted an initial survey of core medical and neurology trainee doctors on consent practice in a specialist neurology hospital. Over a 2-week period, data on LPs carried out on the wards were prospectively collected. Patients rated their understanding of LP and experience of the consenting process using a visual analogue scale, where zero was ‘totally disagree’ and 10 was ‘totally agree’. ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.16-3-s2