ABSTRACT
Demand for genitourinary (GU) medicine services is outstripping supply. Improving efficiency can modulate the supply side of the equation, e.g. decreasing the number of clients having to return for their results. This survey explored how clients at two central London GU medicine clinics would like to receive their results and their views were reflected against what was offered by London GU medicine clinics. There was a significant difference between the result delivery services that the clients wanted and what the clinics provided (P <0.0001, chi(2)). Of the clients, 92% wanted to know their results regardless of outcome whereas 22% of London clinics would only inform clients of positive results. This study questions the importance and feasibility of patient choice, an important aspect of the National Strategy for Sexual Health and HIV. Clinics may not individually be able to provide choice but between them, they do provide a wide range of alternatives for the client.
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HIV Infections/diagnosis , Health Services Accessibility , Patient Acceptance of Health Care , Urology/standards , Humans , Male , State Medicine , Surveys and QuestionnairesSubject(s)
Commerce/standards , Health Education/standards , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Sex Education/standards , Health Education/statistics & numerical data , Health Promotion/standards , Health Promotion/statistics & numerical data , Humans , Sex Education/statistics & numerical dataABSTRACT
The authors describe an analytical method for the determination of plasma vitamin E by high performance liquid chromatography. 100 microliters of plasma are added to en ethanol-hexane mixture in presence of ascorbic acid. The hexan phase is concentrated and 50 microliters are injected directly into the chromatography in a silica gel column. The detector is set at 280 nm. The very low quantity of plasma required for the determination makes this method very useful in neonatal medicine.
