Baseline assessment of staff perception of critical value practices in government hospitals in Kuwait.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Notification of laboratory-determined critical values is key for effective clinical decision making and is thus a consequential step in a patient's health care and safety. This study presents an overview of staff reporting policies and procedures concerning critical values in Kuwaiti governmental hospitals.

Methods

A cross-sectional descriptive study design was adopted. Study subjects were affiliated with laboratories from five government hospitals (four general and one sub-specialty hospital). All laboratory staff in every hospital were included. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (version 23) was used to analyse the collected data at a significance level of ≤ 0.05. Quantitative data analysis included univariate descriptive (means, medians, standard

SUBMITTER: ALFadhalah T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347105 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature