clinical: Lab medicine

Question 1

National patient Safety goals aim to improve patient identifiers and indicate that when adminstering care, tx, and services how many pt identifiers must be used

Answer 1

2

Question 2

What patient identifiers must be used when obtaining specimens

Answer 2

Name, DOB, phleb initial/Date, MR#, ideally use a barcode system

Question 3

How many hours must critical lab values be reported at KUH?

Answer 3

1 hour

Question 4

Which type of lab error is associated with an error in obtaining patient or specimen before analysis for example a patient isn’t fasting, the wrong phlebotomy tube is used, or the specimen is not transported appropriately?

Answer 4

Pre-analytic lab error

Question 5

What sort of error is associated w/ analysis and preparation error?

Answer 5

Analytic

Question 6

What sort of error is associated with laboratorian incorrectly interpreting specimen?

Answer 6

Post Analytic

Question 7

What is point of care testing and give an example

Answer 7

testing performed at the bedside like glucose test, low complexity

must have some degree of training and competency evaluation to complete these

Question 8

Test utilization management seeks to eliminated unnecessary reflex testing and establishes what sort of paradigm to add nuance to treatment

Answer 8

Algorithms