Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the magnitude of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical laboratory errors in hematology tests. RESULTS: A total of 2606 hematology requests were studied. Out of the total, 562 (21.6%) pre-analytic, 14 (0.5%) analytical and 168 (6.4%) po...

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Autores principales: Tadesse, Hirut, Desta, Kassu, Kinde, Samuel, Hassen, Fatuma, Gize, Addisu
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Note
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29970169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3551-y
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author Tadesse, Hirut
Desta, Kassu
Kinde, Samuel
Hassen, Fatuma
Gize, Addisu
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description OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the magnitude of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical laboratory errors in hematology tests. RESULTS: A total of 2606 hematology requests were studied. Out of the total, 562 (21.6%) pre-analytic, 14 (0.5%) analytical and 168 (6.4%) post-analytical errors were recorded which contribute a total frequency of 75.5, 1.9 and 22.6%, respectively. The name of the physician requesting the test was not provided on 2215 (85%) of request forms and 1827 (70.1%) of the request forms were unaccompanied with proper clinical details of the patient. Essential information required on the request forms was often missed. Close communication between clinicians and laboratory personnel is the key to improve laboratory quality in general.
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spelling pubmed-60292682018-07-09 Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tadesse, Hirut Desta, Kassu Kinde, Samuel Hassen, Fatuma Gize, Addisu BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine the magnitude of pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical laboratory errors in hematology tests. RESULTS: A total of 2606 hematology requests were studied. Out of the total, 562 (21.6%) pre-analytic, 14 (0.5%) analytical and 168 (6.4%) post-analytical errors were recorded which contribute a total frequency of 75.5, 1.9 and 22.6%, respectively. The name of the physician requesting the test was not provided on 2215 (85%) of request forms and 1827 (70.1%) of the request forms were unaccompanied with proper clinical details of the patient. Essential information required on the request forms was often missed. Close communication between clinicians and laboratory personnel is the key to improve laboratory quality in general. BioMed Central 2018-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6029268/ /pubmed/29970169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3551-y Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Tadesse, Hirut
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Kinde, Samuel
Hassen, Fatuma
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Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_full Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_fullStr Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_short Errors in the Hematology Laboratory at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
title_sort errors in the hematology laboratory at st. paul’s hospital millennium medical college, addis ababa, ethiopia
topic Research Note
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6029268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29970169
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-018-3551-y
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