Frequency of Specimen Rejection and A ssociated F actors at St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH IN HEALTHCARE - Year 2015, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Clinical laboratory diagnosis is an integral part of the clinical decision of health care service. while every phase is error prone, different literatures showed that more than 70% of errors in clinical laboratory occur in the pre analytical phase. The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of specimen rejection and associated factors at st. Paul’ s Hospital Millennium Medical College, addis ababa, ethiopia.
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Habtamu Molla Tesfaw , Astert Segaye , Fatuma Hassen
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- DOI 10.15415/jmrh.2015.21001
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