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- Title
AWARENESS AND PRACTICES APPLIED BY HEALTH CARE WORKERS TO ACHIEVE PATIENT SAFETY DURING PHLEBOTOMY AND ULTRASOUND BIOPSY.
- Authors
Balooch, Salahuddin; Noureen, Fakhra; Khan, Abid Saeed; Rehman, Ibad Ur; Bakhtawar, Aleena; Raza, Waseem
- Abstract
Objective: To assess awareness and practices applied by health care workers to achieve patient safety during phlebotomy and ultrasound biopsy. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Kharian, Pakistan, from Jan 2019 to Jan 2020. Methodology: The health care providers were interrogated about their knowledge and practices regarding patient safety with respect to phlebotomy and ultrasound biopsy. The responses of participants were evaluated through correlation analysis by SPSS version 17 with p≤0.05. Results: The results show that awareness and practice implementation for patient safety in phlebotomy and ultrasound biopsy enhance in accordance to age, education and experience (p≤0.05). The findings of present study suggest that physicians and nurses tend to have better awareness and practices of patient safety as compared to other health care workers. Nurses showed mean value of 3.14 ± 0.37 for phlebotomy awareness; 3.12 ± 0.53 for ultrasound biopsy awareness; 3.22 ± 0.14 for phlebotomy practices; 2.45 ± 0.55 for ultrasound practices. Physicians showed mean value of 3.65 ± 0.22 for phlebotomy awareness, 3.66 ± 0.36 for phlebotomy practices, 3.77 ± 0.24 for ultrasound biopsy awareness and 3.24 ± 0.53 for ultrasound practices. However, all the health care workers included in present study showed adequate level of awareness and practice implementation. Conclusion: The managers and co-workers need to support the health care workers’ groups that tend to show lower levels of awareness and practice implantation in patient safety.
- Subjects
MEDICAL personnel; ULTRASONIC imaging; PATIENT safety; PHLEBOTOMY; NURSE-physician relationships; BIOPSY
- Publication
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020, Vol 70, Issue 6, p1750
- ISSN
0030-9648
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.51253/pafmj.v70i6.5032