S Raquel Ramos, David T Lardier, Rueben C Warren, Melba Cherian, Sarwat Siddiqui, Trace Kershaw
Substance Use, General Health and Health Literacy as Predictors of Oral Health in Emerging Adult Sexual Minority Men of Color: A Secondary Data Analysis
International journal of environmental research and public health
1 background various guidelines address patient preparation importance venous blood sampling gp41 guideline issued clinical laboratory standards institute clsi blood collection guidelines published world health organisation recommendations provided national societies international organisations field radiology contrast media safety committee european society urogenital radiology field laboratory medicine working group preanalytical phase wgpre european federation clinical chemistry laboratory medicine eflm latin american working group preanalytical phase wgprelatam latin american confederation clinical biochemistry colabiocli also guide practice notable lack understanding regarding viewpoints held nonlaboratory healthcare professionals concerning significance patient preparation laboratory testing impact typical factors associated patient preparation study endeavours bridge gap assessing attitude nonlaboratory healthcare professionals lithuania regarding pivotal aspects 2 methods selfdesigned anonymous questionnaire disseminated among 141 public healthcare institutions lithuania internal consistency questionnaire evaluated computing cronbachs alpha descriptive statistics utilised variables comparisons attitude among groups conducted using mannwhitney u two groups kruskalwallis two groups categorical discrete indicators kruskalwallis posthoc test employed pairwise comparisons significance level pvalue 005 applied establish statistical significance 3 results total 158 respondents constituted two distinct groups healthcare professionals nurses physicians participants either agreed strongly agreed patient preparation could introduce bias laboratory test results professionals less 20 years work experience attended training patient preparation sampling within 5year timeframe exhibited stronger agreement regarding different preanalytical factors patient preparation impact laboratory test results compared counterparts 4 conclusions nonlaboratory healthcare professionals participated survey consider proper patient preparation laboratory testing significant step towards obtaining accurate test results also recognize commonly acknowledged preanalytical factors important ensuring reliable test results however attitudes towards importance several preanalytical factors vary depending whether nonlaboratory healthcare professionals less 20 years work experience well whether attended training topic within last five years never attended training