The role of patient companions in long-term video-EEG monitoring
SEIZURE-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPILEPSY, cilt.9, sa.2, ss.124-127, 2000 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 9 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2000
- Doi Numarası: 10.1053/seiz.1999.0341
- Dergi Adı: SEIZURE-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPILEPSY
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.124-127
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
In developing countries it is difficult to have full-time dedicated nurses in Epilepsy Monitoring Units (EMU). Our one-bed EMU is within the Neurology Service and is adequately staffed during daytime working hours only. So we created a new model where the patient's companion was asked to press a nurse call button, allowing the examination of the patient by the nurse. In this study we aimed to understand how patient companions behaved and which factors influenced their behaviour.