European journal of molecular biology and biochemistry

ESTIMATION OF BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS AND THEIR IMPACT ON CRITICAL RESULTS OF PATIENTS IN A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL

G.Mohan Kumar, K. Sameera & NRVK Swamy

gangupallimohan@gmail.com

laboratory data forms, incompleteness, biochemistry, critical outcomes

Introduction: From past many decades, historically also laboratory biochemical reports have played and are playing a crucial role in clinical decision making tasks by aiding the health care team on the anatomical and physiological condition of individual patients. Which works by using the biological specimens collected from the patient and also various scanning techniques which does not requires extraction of specimen from the individual. Aims and Objectives: To assess the errors present in the laboratory data forms of the inpatient department of the hospital.To assess the knowledge of health care team on the importance of completeness in laboratory data forms. Materials and Methods: All the materials and methods required for the study were collected from the inpatient department of the hospital after getting approval from the Institutional Ethics Committee of the hospital. The study was designed to be retrospective study and was carried out for a period of 2 months from February to April in the year of 2018. Results and Discussion: Physician contact number was missed in 745 forms with a percentage of 59.64%, provisional diagnosis of the patent was missed in 228 forms accounting to a percentage of 18.23%, specimen with respect to time of collection was missed in 189 forms with a percentage of 15.11%, specimen type collected from the patient was found to be missed in 145 patients with a percentage of 11.61%, physician’s name who is attending the patient was missed in 102 forms with a percentage of 8.12%, gender of patient was missed in 8.52% of forms with a number of 107 forms, ward of the patient was missed in 114 forms with a percentage of 9.14%, date of birth of the patient was missed in 93 forms with a percentage of 7.41%, date on which the specimen has been collected from the patient was missed in 88 forms with a percentage of 6.99%, hospital identification number was missed in 71 forms with a percentage of 5.63%, patients name and surname was missed in 28 forms with a percentage of 2.19%. Conclusion: It was observed from the study that many important parameters have been missing in the forms with a certain percentages have been identified and reported. Thus, it is advisable to the hospital management from the study that interventions and measures should be taken for better management of patients