Quality of Radiology Request Forms of Division of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Burapha University Hospital
Keywords:
Radiology, Request form, Quality, CompletionAbstract
Objective Quality of radiology request forms impact on the quality of patient care. Completion of the radiology request forms is required for standard. This study was designed to investigate the adequacy of completion of radiology request forms of Burapha University hospital. Design We reviewed radiology request forms from Out Patient Departments of Burapha University hospital from 1st December 2015 to 31st May 2016 Results There were 1,188 of sample request forms. Of these, 391 (32.9%) were from general x-ray, 308 (25.9%) were from ultrasound, 197 (16.6%) were from mammography and 292 (24.6%) were from computed tomography (CT). All the request had names and hospital numbers. The most complete request forms were ultrasound (95.17%). The second were CT (93.76%). The third were mammography (88.83%), while the least were general x-ray (72.86%). The reason of requesting and clinical information were completely filled in only 36.75% and 22.25% respectively of general x-ray request. Conclusions Radiology request forms of Burapha University hospital were almost complete. The most incompletely filled forms were from general x-ray that was the most part of radiology services of Burapha University hospital.
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