{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,1]],"date-time":"2026-07-01T06:00:59Z","timestamp":1782885659123,"version":"3.54.5"},"reference-count":13,"publisher":"Springer Science and Business Media LLC","issue":"1","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,16]],"date-time":"2025-07-16T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1752624000000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,16]],"date-time":"2025-07-16T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1752624000000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["link.springer.com"],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Sci Rep"],"DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-025-10374-7","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,16]],"date-time":"2025-07-16T16:23:05Z","timestamp":1752682985000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Trends and determinants of laboratory specimen rejection rates at Debre Markos comprehensive specialized hospital in Ethiopia"],"prefix":"10.1038","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Bewket","family":"Mesganaw","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ketema","family":"Misganaw","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mekuriaw","family":"Belayneh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,16]]},"reference":[{"key":"10374_CR1","unstructured":"International Organization for Standardization. Medical laboratories\u2013Requirements for quality and competence 2012 [Available from: https:\/\/www.qal-iran.ir\/WebsiteImages\/iso\/18.PDF"},{"key":"10374_CR2","unstructured":"World Health Organization. Guidance for Establishing a National Health Laboratory System. (2015)."},{"issue":"2","key":"10374_CR3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"235","DOI":"10.4314\/ejhs.v28i2.15","volume":"28","author":"S Ambachew","year":"2018","unstructured":"Ambachew, S. et al. Errors in the total testing process in the clinical chemistry laboratory at the university of Gondar hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. Ethiop. J. Health Sci. 28 (2), 235\u2013244 (2018).","journal-title":"Ethiop. J. Health Sci."},{"issue":"3","key":"10374_CR4","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"357","DOI":"10.1515\/cclm-2014-1051","volume":"53","author":"G Lippi","year":"2015","unstructured":"Lippi, G. et al. Preanalytical quality improvement. In pursuit of harmony, on behalf of European federation for clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine (EFLM) working group for preanalytical phase (WG-PRE). Clin. Chem. Lab. Med. (CCLM). 53 (3), 357\u2013370 (2015).","journal-title":"Clin. Chem. Lab. Med. (CCLM)"},{"issue":"1","key":"10374_CR5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1186\/s13104-018-3891-7","volume":"11","author":"MB Shiferaw","year":"2018","unstructured":"Shiferaw, M. B., Yismaw, G. & Getachew, H. Specimen rejections among referred specimens through referral network to the Amhara public health Institute for laboratory testing, Bahir dar, Ethiopia. BMC Res. Notes. 11 (1), 1\u20136 (2018).","journal-title":"BMC Res. Notes"},{"key":"10374_CR6","unstructured":"World Health Organization. Laboratory Quality Management System: Handbook (World Health Organization, 2011)."},{"issue":"8","key":"10374_CR7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1003","DOI":"10.5858\/arpa.2013-0331-CP","volume":"138","author":"DS Karcher","year":"2014","unstructured":"Karcher, D. S. & Lehman, C. M. Clinical consequences of specimen rejection: A college of American pathologists Q-Probes analysis of 78 clinical laboratories. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 138 (8), 1003\u20131008 (2014).","journal-title":"Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med."},{"issue":"suppl_2","key":"10374_CR8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"S59","DOI":"10.1093\/infdis\/jiv576","volume":"213","author":"Y Kebede","year":"2016","unstructured":"Kebede, Y. et al. Improved specimen-referral system and increased access to quality laboratory services in ethiopia: The role of the public-private partnership. J. Infect. Dis. 213 (suppl_2), S59\u2013S64 (2016).","journal-title":"J. Infect. Dis."},{"issue":"4","key":"10374_CR9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"416","DOI":"10.5858\/2002-126-0416-OPSARF","volume":"126","author":"JC Dale","year":"2002","unstructured":"Dale, J. C. & Novis, D. A. Outpatient phlebotomy success and reasons for specimen rejection: A Q-Probes study. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 126 (4), 416\u2013419 (2002).","journal-title":"Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med."},{"key":"10374_CR10","unstructured":"Pusahai-Riman P. Rate of rejection of haematology samples in pathology department in Port Moresby General Hospital: a retrospective study. Pac. J. Med. Sci. 17(1), 3\u20139 (2017)."},{"issue":"1","key":"10374_CR11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.15415\/jmrh.2015.21001","volume":"2","author":"HM Tesfaw","year":"2015","unstructured":"Tesfaw, H. M., Segaye, A. & Hassen, F. Frequency of specimen rejection and A ssociated F actors at st. Paul\u2019s hospital millennium medical college, addis Ababa Ethiopia. J. Multidisciplinary Res. Healthc. 2 (1), 1\u201316 (2015).","journal-title":"J. Multidisciplinary Res. Healthc."},{"issue":"8","key":"10374_CR12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e0210136","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pone.0210136","volume":"14","author":"C Chiku","year":"2019","unstructured":"Chiku, C. et al. Common causes of EID sample rejection in Zimbabwe and how to mitigate them. Plos One. 14 (8), e0210136 (2019).","journal-title":"Plos One"},{"issue":"2","key":"10374_CR13","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"35","DOI":"10.9790\/0853-0723539","volume":"7","author":"A Mehrotra","year":"2013","unstructured":"Mehrotra, A., Srivastava, K. & Bais, P. An evaluation of laboratory specimen rejection rate in a North Indian setting-a cross-sectional study. Iosr-Jdms 7 (2), 35\u201339 (2013).","journal-title":"Iosr-Jdms"}],"container-title":["Scientific Reports"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10374-7.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10374-7","content-type":"text\/html","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10374-7.pdf","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,7]],"date-time":"2025-09-07T12:43:05Z","timestamp":1757248985000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-025-10374-7"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,16]]},"references-count":13,"journal-issue":{"issue":"1","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12]]}},"alternative-id":["10374"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-025-10374-7","relation":{},"ISSN":["2045-2322"],"issn-type":[{"value":"2045-2322","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,7,16]]},"assertion":[{"value":"7 April 2025","order":1,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"3 July 2025","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"value":"16 July 2025","order":3,"name":"first_online","label":"First Online","group":{"name":"ArticleHistory","label":"Article History"}},{"order":1,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Declarations"}},{"value":"The authors declare no competing interests.","order":2,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Competing interests"}}],"article-number":"25823"}}