Chapter One

Question 1

It is place where tests are performed on clinical specimens in order to information about the health of a patient with regard to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease

Answer 1

Clinical Laboratory

Question 2

Classification of clinical laboratory by institutional characted?

Answer 2

Hospital based lab
Free-standing lab

Question 3

Clinical Laboratory is headed by?

Answer 3

Pathologist

Question 4

Classification of Clinical Laboratory by its function?

Answer 4

Anatomical pathology and Clinical Pathology

Question 5

RA No. 4688 is also known as?

Answer 5

Clinical Laboratory Law of 1966

Question 6

Classification of clinical laboratory by its service capability?

Answer 6

Primary Lab
Secondary Lab
Tertiary Lab

Question 7

What are the capabilities of Primary Lab?

Answer 7

Routine CBC, urinalysis, fecalysis and forward blood
typing and quantitative platelet count for hospital-based laboratories

Question 8

Primary Laboratory must have an area at least?

Answer 8

10 sq. meter

Question 9

What are the capabilities of secondary Lab?

Answer 9

Provides the service capabilities of a primary laboratory and routine Clinical Chemistry (sugar, BUN/Crea, BUA and T. Cholesterol) and crossmatching (hospital-based)

Question 10

Secondary Lab must have an area at least?

Answer 10

20 sq. meter

Question 11

What are the capabilities of tertiary Lab?

Answer 11

Provides the service capabilities of a secondary laboratory and special hematology, special chemistry, immune-serology and microbiology.

Question 12

(True or false) Secondary Lab is the training ground for interns and externs and site of scientific research?

Answer 12

False (Tertiary Lab)

Question 13

Tertiary Lab must have an area of?

Answer 13

60 sq. meter

Question 14

It has discrete sections in hematology, chemistry, microbiology, and blood bank, generally separated into rooms or sections

Answer 14

Traditonal ‘closed’ Lab

Question 15

The discrete services are placed in one large room with portable walls that can be adjusted as needed based on volume

Answer 15

Open Lab

Question 16

Specific low-volume or expensive laboratory services currently provided by more than one regional hospital laboratory, that are consolidated into one hospital
laboratory.

Answer 16

Regional Lab

Question 17

A common type of consolidation has been hematology and chemistry laboratories (‘chematology‘) (Bush, 1998). Its advantages include handling stat requests, improving offshift workflow, and avoiding chronic staffing problems.

Answer 17

Core Lab

Question 18

Laboratory testing that is brought to the patient’s bedside. Test menu is generally limited to a few basic chemistry and hematology tests.

Answer 18

Point of care

Question 19

Rapid ―response laboratory that is often located in or near an emergency department or surgical suite.

Answer 19

Stat Lab

Question 20

Laboratory provides limited menu of routine (like CBC, chemistry panel, prothrombin time) and/or specialty services (like fertility testing) on a stat or non-stat basis?

Answer 20

Limited Service

Question 21

Traditional full service laboratory that handles all types of testing, especially esoteric tests?

Answer 21

Reference Lab

Question 22

NRL for CC and anatomic pathology of pulmonary disease

Answer 22

Lung center of the Philippines

Question 23

NRL for Hematology, Immunohematology and Immunopathology, Anatomic Pathology for other Organ Diseases other than Lungs and heart

Answer 23

NKTI

Question 24

NRL for Environmental and Occupational Health Toxicology and Micronutrient Assay?

Answer 24

EAMC

Question 25

NRL for dengue, influenza, TB & other mycobacteria, malaria and other parasites, bacterial enteric diseases, measles and other exanthems, mycology, enteroviruses, antimicrobial resistance and emerging diseases?

Answer 25

RITM

Question 26

NRL for Confirmatory testing of blood donors and blood units?

Answer 26

RITM

Question 27

NRL for HIV-AIDS, hepatitis and STD?

Answer 27

San Lazaro Hospital

Question 28

NRL for Anatomic pathology for cardiac diseases?

Answer 28

Philippine Heart center

Question 29

What are issues to consider when auditing operations?

Answer 29

(TCTSSTR)
Test ordering
Collection
Transportation
Sample receipt
Sample processing
Testing
Reporting

Question 30

What is the most fundamental data collection technique?

Answer 30

To analyze the distribution of samples and tests over time

Question 31

Processing of collection tube and containers?

Answer 31

Tube analysis/Tube labor

Question 32

Tube analysis is mostly needed in what sections?

Answer 32

Serology and Chemistry

Question 33

What is the goal of workstation analysis?

Answer 33

Understand where, when, and how the work performed

Question 34

Running one test for multiple samples?

Answer 34

Batch testing

Question 35

Runing multiple tests for one sample?

Answer 35

Parallel testing

Question 36

Randomly access sample and reagents and can accommodate an emergency sample at any time

Answer 36

Random access analyzers

Question 37

This exercise provides an opportunity for staff to participate in analyzing workflow and improving performance.

Answer 37

Interview

Question 38

What are the fundamentals of technological innovations should be reminded to every staff and managerial roles in the laboratory?

Answer 38

Is technology needed
Technology is a means to an end, not an end
Overbuying
Understanding what to buy

Question 39

It refers to the process by which workflow (including laboratory design) and technology are integrated to yield an operation that best meets the clinical needs and financial goals of the organization: high quality at low cost

Answer 39

Optimizing performance

Question 40

It is an ongoing process that requires one to constantly assess and reassess workflow and needs?

Answer 40

Optimizing Performance

Question 41

What are the things to consider in workflow metric sample?

Answer 41

Collection to receipt
Receipt to result
Order (or Collection) to Result