TY - JOUR T1 - Benchmarking Lumbar Puncture Fluoroscopy Time during Fellowship Training JF - American Journal of Neuroradiology JO - Am. J. Neuroradiol. SP - 656 LP - 658 DO - 10.3174/ajnr.A5031 VL - 38 IS - 3 AU - H. Yang AU - K. Schaffer AU - L. Liu AU - M. Mahesh AU - D.M. Yousem Y1 - 2017/03/01 UR - http://www.ajnr.org/content/38/3/656.abstract N2 - 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 ER -