Impact of Educational Activities in Reducing Pre-Analytical Laboratory Errors : A quality initiative
| Autor: | Sahimah Al-Mamari, Rodrigo Villacrucis, Hamed Al-Ghaithi, Naglaa Fawaz, Salam Alkindi, Anil Pathare |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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030213 general clinical medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Oman Clinical & Basic Research lcsh:Medicine Sample (statistics) Nursing Staff Hospital 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology blood specimen collection 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing medicine Humans Prospective Studies Diagnostic laboratory Diagnostic Errors quality control Prospective cohort study Hematologic Tests Specimen identification business.industry Pre analytical hematology Incidence (epidemiology) lcsh:R oman specimen handling General Medicine Blood collection University hospital Quality Improvement Emergency medicine healthcare quality assurance business |
| Zdroj: | Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal, Vol 17, Iss 3, Pp 309-313 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2075-0528 |
| Popis: | Objectives: Pre-analytic errors during diagnostic laboratory investigations can lead to increased patient morbidity and mortality. This study aimed to ascertain the effect of educational nursing activities on the incidence of pre-analytical errors resulting in non-conforming blood samples. Methods: This study was conducted between January 2008 and December 2015. All specimens received at the Haematology Laboratory of the Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman, during this period were prospectively collected and analysed. Similar data from 2007 were collected retrospectively and used as a baseline for comparison. Non-conforming samples were defined as either clotted samples, haemolysed samples, use of the wrong anticoagulant, insufficient quantities of blood collected, incorrect/lack of labelling on a sample or lack of delivery of a sample in spite of a sample request. From 2008 onwards, multiple educational training activities directed at the hospital nursing staff and nursing students primarily responsible for blood collection were implemented on a regular basis. Results: After initiating corrective measures in 2008, a progressive reduction in the percentage of non-conforming samples was observed from 2009 onwards. Despite a 127.84% increase in the total number of specimens received, there was a significant reduction in non-conforming samples from 0.29% in 2007 to 0.07% in 2015, resulting in an improvement of 75.86% (P |
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