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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">719</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>SATISFACTION AMONG USERS (DOCTORS __ampersandsignamp; NURSES ) WITH LABORATORY SERVICES AT A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Aubid</surname><given-names>Malik</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>K.</surname><given-names>Manhas Anil</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rashid</surname><given-names>Haroon</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>J.</surname><given-names>Qadri G.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Amina</surname><given-names>Malik</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Shahnawaz</surname><given-names>Hamid</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>11</day><month>11</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>18</fpage><lpage>22</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objective: To study satisfaction among users (doctors and nurses) with laboratory services at a tertiary care hospital.&#13;
Material and Methods: a cross sectional study was carried out for a period of six months among the cadre of professionals who utilized the services of central laboratory at skims, where biochemistry and hematological investigations are performed. Simple Random sampling was used for selection of users. Results: the satisfaction survey had a response rate of 96%. Among faculty the overall satisfaction score ranged from 1.31 to 2.88 with mean score of 2.04. Among residents the overall satisfaction score ranged from 1.37 to 2.7 with a mean score of 2.17. Satisfaction score in nursing supervisors ranged from 2.17 to 2.55 with a mean score of 2.37. Among incharges/nursing staff, the satisfaction score ranged from 1.7 to 2.6 with a mean score of 2.04. Conclusion: communication of laboratory services which included communication of relevant information and notification of significant abnormal results was considered weak by both faulty and resident doctors (17.77% and 14.03% of satisfaction respectively). This highlights the need for improving the communication skills among laboratory staff and users(doctors and nurses) to improve quality in laboratory services. Further researches must be conducted on communication in laboratories to identify the communications.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>User satisfaction</kwd><kwd> Laboratory communication</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
