Incomplete patient data on chemical pathology laboratory forms in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

Adamu, S; Abdullahi, Mohammed; El-Bashir, Jibril M; Abubakar, JD; Mshelia, DS

doi:10.4103/atp.atp_44_17

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“…The name of the patient in this study was the only parameter that presents in all the laboratory requests and reports forms. This is proportion is similar to the findings of other studies [15,17,[19][20][21] that the name of the patient was fully completed. This might be due to the fact that patients' names were as simple as it appears to be first in many requests and report format [6] and may also be due to rejected at the reception of any request form that has no patients' name.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Other study needed to identify the reasons for the inadequate filling of the laboratory request forms by the clinicians and result form by laboratory personnel should be carried out. [15,19] and Kenya 14.9% [20]. However, it was comparable with a report from North India 98% [17].…”

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confidence: 81%

“…The age was appeared in about 99.6% in request laboratory formats and 95.9 % in a report format in this study. This proportion is higher than the finding of 42.1% and 39% in Nigeria [11,15] and similar to study from North India that age was completed with 99.8% of Blood bank and 99.7% blood chemistry laboratory requests [16]. The observed difference might be due to a different level of awareness of clinician and laboratory personnel about the importance of demographic and clinical information of patient that may have a negative influence on many diseases conditions and drug dose for treatment which specifically depend on certain age groups.…”

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confidence: 67%

“…The hospital registration number provided was about 99% in both requests and report lab in this study. This is higher than the results of 78.8% and 87% from Nigeria [11,15]. However, it is more comparable with a study from North India with 97% [17] and 100% Kenya [20].…”

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confidence: 52%

“…The correct interpretation of the test results is a core point to patient management that highly based on the information given on the request and report form. Several studies have shown deficiencies in the filling of laboratory requests and report forms world widely [5,11,[15][16][17][18].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Assessment of laboratory test request forms for completeness

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Olayanju

Awah

et al. 2021

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Background: Laboratory test request forms usually accompany patient’s samples to the laboratory, providing biodata and clinical details of the patient. This information is for purposes of identification and guiding pathologists to accurately interpret patient’s result. Clinicians however do not usually provide all the required information, thus making interpretation difficult. The frequency of such incompleteness is assessed in this study.Methods: Laboratory request forms received at the Chemical Pathology laboratory between July and September 2020 were assessed for completeness of all the required parameters. Parameters analyzed in this study included age, gender, hospital number, location, clinical information, name of requesting physician and the date of request. Frequency of missing parameters were expressed as proportions (%) of the total omissions.Results: There were 1906 request forms received during the course of this study and 789 (41.4%) of them had at least one missing parameter. Apart from patients’ names, nature of sample and the requested investigation, all other parameters were omitted at one time or the other making a total of 1117 omissions. Age (287; 25.7%) hospital number (264; 23.6%) and clinical information (246; 22%) were the most commonly omitted parameters. Majority of the omissions (69%) were from the outpatient clinics, 20% were from the wards while 10% of the forms had no ward or clinic indicated.Conclusion: Incomplete filling of laboratory test request forms is a regular occurrence among clinicians. Effort must be made to continually sensitize them of the importance of each of the required parameters to ensure a visible improvement.

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Assessment of Filling of Relevant Information on the Laboratory Request Forms

Adegoke,

Atiba,

Adegoke

et al. 2024

Trends Med. Res

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Background and Objective: It has been observed in the recent past, that the importance of preventing pre-analytical errors was reported to cause as high as 67% of errors observed in laboratory results. The errors in this phase of analysis are still unresolved even with the advent of autoanalyzers. The objective of this study was to analyze the contribution of inadequate filling of request forms to pre-analytical errors. Materials and Methods:The research was a cross-sectional study that was carried out on in-and outpatient request forms received from various sections of the hospital over a period of three months. A protocol table was created to capture variables. The analysis included all request forms obtained in each of the four laboratories as well as those obtained from other hospitals in the environment. Data were analyzed by the use of SPSS version 23. Variables were summarised by mean and frequency tables. Results: The age of the patient was missing from 14.6% of the forms. The gender of the patients was missing in 1.3% of cases. The time of sample collection was specified in 105 (10.5%) request forms but was left blank in 895 (89.5%) forms. In 303 (30.3%) of the forms, the date of sample collection was missing. In 989 (98.9%) of the forms, the current medication history of the patients was not provided. The clinical summary was provided in 856 (85.6%) forms while it was not indicated in 126 (12.6%) of the forms. Conclusion:Only the patients' names and the investigations required were filled in all the forms. All other parameters on the laboratory request forms were not fully completed.

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Incomplete patient data on chemical pathology laboratory forms in a Tertiary Hospital in Nigeria

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Assessment of laboratory test request forms for completeness

Assessment of Filling of Relevant Information on the Laboratory Request Forms

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