During a three week period, all patients aged between 18 and 65 years with newly diagnosed FAI seen in clinic at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, were invited to read through the Patient Information Leaflet and answer the questionnaire to identify patient preferences for the management of their hip pathology.
When the band was touring at the time of the album's release, they distributed leaflets with interviews answering questions they are not usually asked.
However, there is increasing support to include more benefit information in package leaflets, 19 to answer the call from patients that they want more balanced information on which they can make decisions about whether a medicine is right for them.
You have available to you communication technologies that are infinitely more powerful than the ones we had 50 years ago, which were home telephones (without answering machines) and typed mimeo leaflets handed out on a street corner.
Then there's the more recent tales of bewildered Minneapolis residents answering the door to find him brandishing leaflets on behalf of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Squashed in between boxes and leaflets, cycle helmets and child car seats are a tired-looking woman trying to decipher a benefits agency decision and a colleague cheerfully answering the phone.
Once the teams were selected for each centre, the site researchers visited all teams included in the study, explained the study aims, policy with respect to confidentiality etc, then handed each staff member an information leaflet about the study, and answered questions.
CAP information leaflets do not fully address patients' information needs [ 11] and patients find it difficult to use the standard information they receive and value being able to access someone who can answer their queries [ 18].
They could, he said, now take the tape off their postboxes because no more leaflets would be dropped through; they could answer their phone without worrying it was going to be a pollster.
I think everybody will need to be informed and able to answer questions, and you know leaflets and resources around reception and places like that".
