Chapter 1: Reasons for Laboratory Testing Flashcards

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What are the categories that laboratory test falls into?

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Screening or diagnostic.

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What is the goal of Screening Testing?

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Detection of diseases or conditions in their early stages when treatment is more effective.

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What is the goal of Preoperative testing?

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Manage patient’s risks for anesthesia and surgery to reduce the patient’s length of stay after surgery.

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What is the goal of Confirm a diagnosis testing?

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To lead the provider in a specific direction or to rule out (eliminate) other possibilities.

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What is the goal of Monitor Chronic Conditions testing?

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Diseases require some element of laboratory monitoring on a regular basis to determine if adjustments are needed in the patient’s treatment plan.

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What is the goal of Determine the Efficacy or Treatment testing?

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Determine if a patient’s medication is within a therapeutic range, a process called Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.

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If a patient with epilepsy must take an effective amount of anti-seizure medication to?

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Control the condition.

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What does Screening test can detect?

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Potential diseases before a patient reports any signs or symptoms.

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Are diseases uncovered during routine screening are often easy or difficult?

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Easy.

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What are Diagnostic tests?

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Confirm the presence of a disease usually in a patient who shows signs or symptoms of a disease.

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What is Therapeutic Drug Monitoring?

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Process of determining the dose at which a drug will be the safest and most effective.

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