CLINICAL LABORATORY LAW OF 1966 Flashcards
It is an act regulating the operation and maintenance of clinical laboratories and requiring the registration of the same with the department of health, providing penalty for the violation thereof and for other purposes
RA 4688
When was RA 4688 approved?
June 18, 1966
Who is the president that approved RA 4688?
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos
What is the main purpose of the law?
preventing the operation and maintenance of substandard, improperly managed and poorly equipped clinical laboratories
When are Clinical Laboratories renewed?
anually
What is the total number of sections for RA 4688?
8
what section of RA 4688 that the clinical laboratory shall register and secure a license annually at the office of the Secretary of Health wherein government hospital laboratories are exempted if their services are extensions of government regional or central laboratories?
Section 1
It shall be unlawful for any person to be professionally in-charge of a registered clinical laboratory unless he is a licensed physician duly qualified in laboratory medicine authorized by the Secretary of Health
Section 2
No license shall be granted or renewed by the Secretary of Health for operations and maintenance of a clinical laboratory
unless such laboratory is under the administration, direction and supervision of an authorized physician
Revised rules and regulation of clinical laboratories in the Philippines; approved august 22, 2007
Administrative No. 2007-0027
Specific office to give license to operate
Health Facilities and Services Regulatory Bureau
Operated and maintained, partially or whollt by the government
Government Ownership
Individual, corporation, association or organization
Private Ownership
Tests that are commonlu performed in the laboratory
Clinical Pathology
It involves anayzing tissues, cadaver and cells
Anatomic Pathology
Operated within the premises and as part of an institution
Institution Based
Does not form part of any institution. It operates on its own
Free-standing
Does not form part of any institution. It operates on its own
Free-standing
It provides minimum service capability: routine hematology, routine urinalysis, routine fecalysis, blood typing
Primarg Categort Minimum Service Capability
Which institution cannot perform blood typing?
Free standing
It includes primary, routine clinical chemistry
Secondary Laboratory
It includes primary, secondary, special chemistry, special hematology + coagulation, immunology, and microbiology wherein majority of its services are institution based.
Tertiary Laboratory
Quantitation of WBCs
White Blood Count
Determines the number of each type of white blood cell, present in blood, expressed in %
Differential Count
An anticoagulany that captures calcium to prevent clotting
Ethylenediaminetriacetic acid
Laboratory tests are for a particular service in the insitution, can be primary or secondary
Limited Clinical Laboratory
Offers a highly specialized laboratory service not provided by a general clinical laboratory
Special Clinic Laboratory
A government hospital which is designated to provide special functions and services: confirmatory testing, sruveillance, resolution of conflicts etc.
National Reference Laboratory
What are the NRLs in the Philippines
National Kidney
East Avenue Medical Center
Lung center
RITM
San Lazaro Hospital/STD-AIDS Central Cooperative Laboratory
Section and Departments
Hematology
Immuno-hematology
Immuno-serology
Clinical Microscopy (urinalysis-parasitology
Clinical Chemistry
Microbiology (Bacteriology)
Histo-pathology
allowed to perform such that it is attached to an institution based clinical laboratory
Satellite Testing Site
either institution or freestanding laboratory
Operate within a 100km radius from its base laboratory
Mobile Clinical Laboratory
