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The Clinical Laboratory Flashcards

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What does a clinical lab do?

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Performs microscopic tests on body fluids and specimen

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What is Clinical Lab Improvement Amendment (CLIA ‘88)

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Specifies minimum performance standrads for quality lab testing

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What is Centers for Medicare and Medlaid Services (CMS)

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Implement rules from CLIA to all labs and need a certificate from this service to operate. Example: You need a waived test certificate to do wavied tests

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What is a Provider-Performed Microscopy Procedure

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Certificate under CMS to perform microscopy procedures

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What is the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

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Oversees public healthcare matters; used ot be known as Healthcare Finanacing Admin (HCFA)

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What are Physician Office Laboratories (POL)

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Labs in a physician’s office; perfoms various kinds of tests and makes up more than 50% of labs

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What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

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Protection of personal info of patient

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How does HIPAA affect healthcare workers?

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Limits certain infomation that can be told to some doctors

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What are reference laboratories

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Labs that are privitaly owned; regional; high amount of tests dones; Large hospitals use them to perofrm hard tests and smaller ones use them to perform all tests

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What are Government Labs (Federal)

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Main lab for public health system

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What is the laboratory response network (LRN)

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CDC coordinates this; LRN makes sure labs are equipped to respond well to threats to public health

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What are Government Labs (State)

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Labs operated by state’s deparmtnet of public helath. Perform tests based on state standreds. They do more unique testing like culture of fungi

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What are the 5 CLIA certificate categories

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  1. Certificate of Waiver - can do a waiver test
  2. Certificate of PPMP (provider-performed microscopy procedure) - can do microscopy procedures
  3. Registration certificate - Grants approval for tesint procedures
  4. Certificate for complience - Lab listens to rules
  5. Certificate of Accreditation - Means they have met best quality standred for testing
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What are some jobs in clinical lab?

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  1. Laboratory Director
  2. Technical Supervisor & Laboratory Manager
  3. General Supervisor and Department Head
  4. Testing Personnel
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What is Laboratory Director?

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Oversees Anatomical Pathology (has Autopsy service, cytology and histology) and Clinical Pathology

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What is Technical Supervisor & Laboratory Manager?

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Trains people, and operates lab. Provides up-to-date instructions for procedures (AKA: Standread OPerating Procedure SOP mannual)

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What is General Supervisor and Department Head

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Evaluates quality and performance of work

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What is Testing personnel

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Performs lab analysis

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What are the departmetns of Clinical Lab?

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  1. Hematology
  2. Immunology
  3. Blood bank/ Transfusion services or Immunohemetology
  4. Microbiology (Bacteriology, Parasitology and Virology and Mycology)
  5. Clinical Chemistry
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What is Hematology

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Sutdy of cellular parts of blood

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What are some tests done in Hematology department

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Quantitative: # of cells in blood
Qualitative: Size/shape/maturity of cell

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What are some tests done in Immunology department

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Pregnancy, sexual transmmission virus and autoimmune diseases

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What is Blood bank/ Transfusion services or Immunohemetology

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Helps with blood trnasfusions

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What are some tests done in Blood bank deparmtneet

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N/A, but they help find your ABO group and Ph type

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What is Microbiology

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Making and finding microorganisms

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Wht are the subdeparmtents of Microbiology

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Bacteriology - Growing bacterai to identify treatment
Virology - Study of virus
Mycology - Study of fungi
Parasitology - Study of living organisms in your body that live off of you

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What are some tests done in Microbiology

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Seperating bacteria from human fluid
Culture of fungi and bacteria
To see if there’s any parasite antigens in feces

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What is Clinical Chemistry

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Focuses on qualitative tests

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What are some tests done in Clinical Chemistry

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Tests on plasma, serum, urine and bodily fluids

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What are Laboratory Support Services

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A lab request form taht must be filled out before testing begains

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What are Phlebotomists?

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People taht collect blood specimen

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What are advantages of lab infomation systems?

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● Elimination of charting errors
● Improved efficiency
● Automatic identification of abnormal or unusual test results
● Matching of patient specimens to test results
● Prevention of unauthorized testing and reporting

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What is Lab Inform system?

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Speciment labeled will have a bar code that links it to a patient with a wristband

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What is proficiency testing?

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Tests to see how good a laboratory performs with moderate-high complexity tests

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How do Labs become accredited?

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Invite an accrediting agency to determine if standrads are being meant

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American Association
of Blood Banks (AABB)

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Sets blood bank stnadreds and promotes high stnadreds of performance in transfusion medicine

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anticoagulant

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Substancee & chemicals that prevents blood coagulation

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bacteriology

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Study of bacteria

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blood bank

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Department of clinical science or fridge that stores the blood

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

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Central lab for national public health system

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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

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The agency that is responsible for implementing CLIA (is in the Department Health and Human Services)

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Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)

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NPO that sets standards and practices for best practice for clinical labs

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Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA ’88)

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Federal act that specific minimum performance standards for clinical labs

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coagulation

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liquid state to semi solid state forming a blood clot

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College of American Pathologists (CAP)

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offers accreditation for labs

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COLA

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Offers accreditation for healthcare facilities

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Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

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Government agency that oversees public healthcare matters

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electronic health record (EHR)

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Portable electronic patient health record

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electronic medical record (EMR)

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digital chart where people receive treatment

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Division of Department of Health and Human Services that protects public health by double checking the safety of food, drugs, cosmetics, biological products and

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Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)

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Old name for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

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hematology

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the study of blood and the blood-forming tissues

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HIPAA

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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 -> protect the healthcare info of patient

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immunohematology

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sutdy of human blood groups

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immunology

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Study of immune processes and immunity

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Joint Commission (JC)

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Accredits hosptials and large healthcare facilities

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Laboratory Response Network (LRN)

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Public/priviate labs creaated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention witht the ability to do rapid testing

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microbiology

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Branch in biology that studies microbes

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mycology

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study of fungi

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National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS)

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Old name for Clinical Lab Standrads INstitute

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pathologist

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Physician trained in the nature and cause of disease

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phlebotomist

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Healthcare worker trained in blood collection

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physician office laboratory (POL)

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lab located in a physicians office, group practice or clinic

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plasma

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where blood cells are suspended; liquid part of blood

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point-of-care testing (POCT)

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testing outside tradtional lab setting

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proficiency testing (PT)

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A programs where they test labs accurancy when testing specimen; evaltuated at regular intervals; compared to perofmance of similar labs

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Provider-Performed Microscopy Procedure (PPMP)

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Certificate category in CLIA ‘88 that allows labs to perform certains tests depending on how high the certificate is

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quality assessment (QA)

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program that monitors testing process to provide highest quality care

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reference laboratory

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independant regional lab that offers special testing services to hosptials and physicians

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