PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Yang, H.
AU  - Schaffer, K.
AU  - Liu, L.
AU  - Mahesh, M.
AU  - Yousem, D.M.
TI  - Benchmarking Lumbar Puncture Fluoroscopy Time during Fellowship Training
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A5031
DP  - 2017 Mar 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 656--658
VI  - 38
IP  - 3
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/38/3/656.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/38/3/656.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2017 Mar 01; 38
AB  - SUMMARY: We sought to establish a guide for identifying fellowship competency in performing fluoroscopically guided lumbar punctures. With a linear mixed-effects model, we compared the fluoroscopy time between the first and last 3 months of neuroradiology training. During 7 years, 55 fellows performed 1142 and 861 lumbar punctures in the first and last quarters of training. A target fluoroscopy time of 0.26 minutes, the upper 95% confidence interval, can serve as a fellowship benchmark for successfully achieving competence in fluoroscopically guided lumbar punctures.FGLPfluoroscopically guided lumbar punctureFTfluoroscopy time