Evaluation Of Laboratory Performance And Associated Factors Towards Achieving Turnaround Time In Clinical Chemistry And Hematology Departments At Armed Force Comprehensive And Specialized Hospital Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

Background: Establishing and maintain Turnaround time (TAT) for each test parameters is one of essential point for delivering quality laboratory services and client satisfactions. According to WHO recommendation, each laboratory should establish TAT to monitor and evaluate performance throughout of pre-analytical, analytical and post analytical processes.rnObjective: To evaluate the laboratory performance and associated factors towards achieving turnaround time in CC and Hema test sat, AFCSH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.rnMethods: A hospital based cross sectional study was conducted to evaluate the performance of TAT on clinical chemistry and hematology test parameters at AFCSH, laboratory from April2019 to June2019.A total of 422samples were collected, out of these samples 253 were from clinical chemistry test parameters169 were collected from hematology test parameters. In addition professional KAP for the Laboratory staffs with TAT has been assessed by using standard questionnaire. The data was entered; cleaned and analyzed using SPSS 24.0 Software. Descriptive statistics was applied in univariate analysis. Bivariate and multivariable regression analysis was done to find out statistically significant association and strength of association between dependent and independent variables at p-value

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