Chapter 1: Reasons for Laboratory Testing

Question 1

What are the categories that laboratory test falls into?

Answer 1

Screening or diagnostic.

Question 2

What is the goal of Screening Testing?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

What is the goal of Preoperative testing?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What is the goal of Confirm a diagnosis testing?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

What is the goal of Monitor Chronic Conditions testing?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

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

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Control the condition.

Question 8

What does Screening test can detect?

Answer 8

Potential diseases before a patient reports any signs or symptoms.

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Easy.

Question 10

What are Diagnostic tests?

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What is Therapeutic Drug Monitoring?

Answer 11

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