Evaluating laboratory request forms submitted to haematology and blood transfusion departments at a hospital in Northwest Nigeria
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Evaluating laboratory request forms submitted to haematology and blood transfusion departments at a hospital in Northwest Nigeria
BACKGROUND The laboratory request form (LRF) is a communication link between laboratories, requesting physicians and users of laboratory services. Inadequate information or errors arising from the process of filling out LRFs can significantly impact the quality of laboratory results and, ultimately, patient outcomes. OBJECTIVE We assessed routinely-submitted LRFs to determine the degree of co...
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عنوان ژورنال: African Journal of Laboratory Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2225-2010,2225-2002
DOI: 10.4102/ajlm.v5i1.381