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26 August 2026

The Practice of the PDCA Cycle in Quality Management of Physical Examination and Blood Collection Specimens

Cailian Wang1*
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1 Nanjing Qixia District Hospital, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, China
APM 2026 , 11(8), 170–175; https://doi.org/10.26689/APM.v11i8.16089
© 2026 by the Author. Licensee: Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract

Purpose: To explore the effect of the PDCA cycle in the quality management of physical examination and blood collection specimens. Methods: The subjects who received physical examinations in our hospital from 2025.1 to 2026.6 were included. The total sample size was 120 cases. They were grouped according to the order of admission. Routine management was carried out in the nursing management work of our hospital before August 2025, and the 60 subjects included were named the control group. In August 2025, PDCA cycle management was started in the nursing management work, and the 60 subjects included were named the observation group. The incidence of blood collection adverse events, subject satisfaction and operation standardization scores were compared between the two groups. Results: The incidence of adverse events in blood collection was lower in the observation group (3.33%) than in the control group (16.67%), P<0.05. The subject satisfaction score of the observation group was higher than that of the control group, P<0.05. The normative score of nurses’ blood collection operations in the observation group was higher than that in the control group, P<0.05. Conclusion: The implementation of PDCA cycle management in the quality management of blood collection specimens for physical examination has significant value in reducing the incidence of adverse events in blood collection, and can effectively improve subject satisfaction and operational standardization.

Keywords
Physical examination and blood collection
Specimen quality management
PDCA cycle
Adverse events
Satisfaction
Operational standardization
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