Carers and comforters

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Individuals other than staff who care for and comfort patients. These individuals include parents and others normally family or close friends who hold children during diagnostic procedures or may come close to patients following the administration of radiopharmaceuticals or during brachytherapy.

(from ICRP Publication 120, 2012)

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