supervision. A mutually convenient date, time and telephone number will also be agreed with you for a telephone consultation with your specialist. This consultation will take approximately 15 minutes and will involve discussion of your condition and aims to provide you with information as well as discussing or starting treatment. Appropriate follow-up appointments or investigations will also be arranged for you. If you are allocated to group (2) in this study, you will be given a routine appointment to attend the Urogynaecology Clinic as normal. You will be given the opportunity to use the ePAQ system at the time of your appointment (as is currently our standard practice in the outpatient department). We will ask all women who agree to enter this study to complete paper questionnaires about the care that they have received, their quality of life, and their feelings about the service and the ePAQ system that they have used. These paper questionnaires will be posted to you before and immediately following your appointment and at 6 months after your first consultation. They will take about 5 - 10 minutes to complete and you will be provided with a stamped addressed envelope to send them back to us. We will also closely monitor what medical and surgical treatments are used for all women in this study, as well as what investigations are used, what follow-up appointments are arranged and how long patients have to wait. Why have I been chosen? Women referred to the Urogynaecology Unit at the Jessop Wing of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield will be given the option of entering this study. We aim to recruit around 304 women to ensure that we can make statistical comparisons between women who use ePAQ in advance of their clinic appointments & then have a telephone consultation, compared with women who use the ePAQ at the time of their appointment. With your permission, we will inform your GP that you are taking part in this study. Confidentiality All reasonable steps will be taken to ensure confidentiality. Any information collected using the Internet ePAQ system is anonymous and can only be used with your permission by the clinicians involved in your care. All the information that is collected about you during the course of the research will be kept strictly confidential. When the results are published, no names will be used, and it will not be possible to identify anyone who has taken part. Will my taking part involve any extra visits?
supervision. A mutually convenient date, time and telephone number will also be agreed with you for a telephone consultation with your specialist. This consultation will take approximately 15 minutes and will involve discussion of your condition and aims to provide you with information as well as discussing or starting treatment. Appropriate follow-up appointments or investigations will also be arranged for you. If you are allocated to group (2) in this study, you will be given a routine appointment to attend the Urogynaecology Clinic as normal. You will be given the opportunity to use the ePAQ system at the time of your appointment (as is currently our standard practice in the outpatient department). We will ask all women who agree to enter this study to complete paper questionnaires about the care that they have received, their quality of life, and their feelings about the service and the ePAQ system that they have used. These paper questionnaires will be posted to you before and immediately following your appointment and at 6 months after your first consultation. They will take about 5 - 10 minutes to complete and you will be provided with a stamped addressed envelope to send them back to us. We will also closely monitor what medical and surgical treatments are used for all women in this study, as well as what investigations are used, what follow-up appointments are arranged and how long patients have to wait. Why have I been chosen? Women referred to the Urogynaecology Unit at the Jessop Wing of the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield will be given the option of entering this study. We aim to recruit around 304 women to ensure that we can make statistical comparisons between women who use ePAQ in advance of their clinic appointments & then have a telephone consultation, compared with women who use the ePAQ at the time of their appointment. With your permission, we will inform your GP that you are taking part in this study. Confidentiality All reasonable steps will be taken to ensure confidentiality. Any information collected using the Internet ePAQ system is anonymous and can only be used with your permission by the clinicians involved in your care. All the information that is collected about you during the course of the research will be kept strictly confidential. When the results are published, no names will be used, and it will not be possible to identify anyone who has taken part. Will my taking part involve any extra visits?
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