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Assessment of the Completeness of Laboratory Request and Laboratory Report Formats and Identify the Advantage of Writing Complete Information on Both Formats for Both Health Professionals and Patients in Addis Ababa Health Bearuea Janmeda Health Center, Ethiopia

Haymanot Tewabe, Birhanu Haile, Bewuket Siyum and Getahun Mihret
Page: 9-15 | Received 21 Sep 2022, Published online: 21 Sep 2022

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Abstract

Laboratory requests and laboratory reports are forms used as a communication instrument between physicians and laboratory professionals. These two forms have their own parameters to be a complete form of communication. Aim of the study was to assess the completeness of laboratory request and laboratory report forms in Janmeda health center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A prospective study was conducted from July 10/2017-January 23/2018 on a total of 5200 laboratory requests and related 5200 laboratory report in Janmeda health center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Finally, data was analyzed by using SPSS Software. In this study, a total of 5200 laboratory requests and 5200 laboratory reports have been used for the assessment and out of these 77.37% of requests and 87.15% of report formats were fully completed with all patient demography indicator characteristics and high gap is identified in the completion of physician and laboratory professional indicators. According to, this study finding most of lab request and lab report forms was not completely fulfilled which accounts only 48.6% out of 5200 data’s. So, to fill this gap all information about advantage of all parameters in both formats must given to all health professionals.

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Haymanot Tewabe, Birhanu Haile, Bewuket Siyum and Getahun Mihret. Assessment of the Completeness of Laboratory Request and Laboratory Report Formats and Identify the Advantage of Writing Complete Information on Both Formats for Both Health Professionals and Patients in Addis Ababa Health Bearuea Janmeda Health Center, Ethiopia.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/aceja.2019.9.15
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