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    Pediatric Resident Knowledge of Transfusion Medicine in Tikur Anbessa specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024
    (Addis Ababa University, 2024-03) Tadesse,Elias; Gidey,Abdulkadir(MD, Ass.Prof.)
    Background: One of the most often performed hospital treatments worldwide is blood transfusion. Approximately 5% of pediatric patients require transfusions at least once while they are hospitalized. Clinician’s knowledge about blood products and their preparation, storage, demands, doses and administration, may have profound impact on patient care and transfusion outcomes. Despite the frequent use of transfusion therapy in almost every medical field and potential risk, there is very little educational time in medical school and residency spent on transfusion medicine topics. Objective: - This study amid to assess Pediatric Resident Knowledge of Transfusion Medicine in Tikur Anbessa specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2024. Methods: Hospital based cross-sectional study was conducted among 107 conveniently selected residents at study Hospitals from 16/10/2015 -16/01/2016 E.C. Knowledge of residents were assessed by a structured questionnaire adapted from different literature. Then the data was analyzed using SPSS version 25 software package. Descriptive summary statistics, One-Way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to determine if there were any statistically significant differences between the mean scores for different subgroups and fisher exact test was computed, to check if there was statistically significant association between the knowledge level and explanatory variable. Statistical significance was considered at level of significance of 5% (p value <0.05). finally, the results were presented using text, table, and charts. Result: 107 pediatric residents in TASH participated in this study. Majority of the residents (80.4%) had good knowledge on diagnosing/treating acute hemolytic transfusion reactions. The average score was 34.7% with no statistically significant difference in year of residency. Conclusion: this study examined, using a validated, pediatric-focused assessment tool, transfusion medicine knowledge in a large sample of pediatric residents of TASH. The results demonstrated that many pediatric residents do not have adequate transfusion medicine education and knowledge.