Table 3.
Association of indications and sampling time appropriateness with patients’ characteristics, nursing duty shifts, and ordering units.
| Variable | Sampling time appropriateness |
Indication appropriateness |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appropriate n (%) | Inappropriate n (%) | p | Appropriate n (%) | Inappropriate n (%) | p | |
| Gender | ||||||
|
104 (28.8) | 257 (71.2) | 0.237 | 317 (80.3) | 78 (19.7) | 0.417 |
|
104 (33.0) | 211 (67.0) | 263 (77.8) | 75 (22.2) | ||
| Age (years) | ||||||
|
95 (26.4) | 265 (73.6) | 0.008 | 284 (76.1) | 89 (23.9) | 0.048 |
|
113 (35.8) | 203 (64.2) | 296 (82.2) | 64 (17.8) | ||
| Nursing duty shifts (time) | ||||||
|
63 (29.9) | 148 (70.1) | 0.117 | – | – | – |
|
67 (36.6) | 116 (63.4) | – | – | ||
|
78 (27.7) | 204 (72.3) | – | – | ||
| Ordering units | ||||||
|
115 (40.1) | 172 (59.9) | 0.000 | 266 (81.3) | 61 (18.7) | 0.001 |
|
65 (24.3) | 203 (75.7) | 201 (72.0) | 78 (28.0) | ||
|
13 (17.8) | 60 (82.2) | 68 (90.7) | 7 (9.3) | ||
|
15 (31.3) | 33 (68.8) | 45 (86.5) | 7 (13.5) | ||