Chapter 2: Categories of Testing Flashcards

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What are Waived tests?

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Approved for waiver under the CLIA criteria and involve simple laboratory tests with low risk of error.

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A CLIA Certificate of Waived is required to perform tests?

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Yes.

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Examples of Waived test are?

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Dipstick urinalysis, fecal occult blood, urine pregnancy tests, rapid strep tests, etc.

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MA are often responsible for performing CLIA-waived tests in?

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Physician’s office laboratory.

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Moderate Complexity requires the use of?

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Automated laboratory equipment in testing iike chemistry profiles of blood.

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Moderate complexity teste require the higher degree of training provided to?

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Medical technologist and medical technicians.

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Provider-performed microscopy procedures (PPMP), in which a physician or midlevel practitioner uses a microscope to?

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Perform testing on human specimens.

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What does High Complexity require?

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Expertise beyond automation.

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Special rules apply to cytology testing including?

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Workload limits; specialized proficiency testing requirements that apply not just to the laboratory, also to personnel performing tests.

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High complexity tests require qualifications for personnel such as?

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Medical Laboratory Scientist or Medical Technologist.

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