The Compliance and Quality of Biological Examination Requests at the Douala General Hospital

Introduction: The prescription of biological examinations is the first step in guaranteeing quality results analyzes given by laboratory. Indeed, irregularity requests for makes it difficult to carry out and interpret also compromises optimal rational use diagnostic aid tool that clinical biology purpose this study was assess compliance Biological Examinations Requests (BERs) at Douala General Hospital (DGH)
 Material Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional conducted from January June 2022 laboratory department DGH. information provided on each request evaluated using a technical sheet containing evaluation grids ISO 15189 standard.
 Results: total 1765 BERs 10 known departments 5.20% (n = 91) with no details were analyzed. Prescriber qualification absent 13.31% (n=235), notified 23.79% (n=420), prescriber contact 2.89% (n=51). assessment revealed 49% (n=867) non-compliant. Furthermore, correlation observed between non-compliant internal medicine (OR 0.52 P-value 0.038) medical specialists 0.576 0.048) significant association.
 Conclusion: It lacked identifying patient, prescriber, as well examination/sample. standard recommends accuracy information. Because their absence would make impossible examinations, waste time searching service/prescriber additional or return results. These suggest an improvement practices DGH particular Cameroon general.