Letter
Sustainability of medical imaging
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BMJ
2004;328:1201.2
To obtain informed consent from everyone is impossible
- Mark Lewars, consultant radiologist (Mark.Lewars@southend.nhs.uk)
- Southend Hospital NHS Trust, Westcliff on Sea SS0 0RY
EDITOR—Picano asks the impossible in suggesting signed informed consent for radiological examinations.1 To obtain consent for every x ray examination, you need prepared information sheets and forms and some staff experience. Then consider the factor of time.
Allow half a minute each for introducing the documents to the patient, retrieving and checking the forms, fielding average …
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