Lab Management

Question 1

Types of costs

Answer 1

1) Direct: related to product
Ex: labor, reagent, supplies, quality controls

2) indirect : create environment for production
Ex: supervisor labor, building maintenance, rent

3) overhead: do not contribute to revenue
Ex: administration (local and global), utilities

Question 2

Types of cost ( Fixed VS Variable )

Answer 2

1) Fixed: does not vary over time or volume
Ex: rent, license, overhead, management

2) Variable: varies over time or parallels vol
Ex: reagents, supplies, technologist labor and overtime

3) semi variable: eg labor

Question 3

Which analysis may be used to determine if a test should be brought in-house?

Answer 3

Break even

Question 4

According to Maslow’s hierarchy the most valued are

Answer 4

Self-actualization and fulfillment are the highest human needs.

Question 5

The phase of testing where most errors occur

Answer 5

Pre-analytic 32-75%

Question 6

Dunning- Kruger effect is

Answer 6

Unskilled workers overestimate their abilities and paradoxically skilled workers underestimate theirs.

Question 7

Hawthorne effect is

Answer 7

People behave differently if they know they are being studied.

Question 8

White hat 🧢 bias

Answer 8

Selective form of publishing bias wherein studies are published more often that have a perceived more ‘ noble’ value.

Question 9

The Semmelweis Reflex is

Answer 9

When people tend to reject new evidence which contradicts the established paradigm.

Question 10

Anchoring refers to …

Answer 10

Occurs when the first diagnosis may cloud the judgement of future diagnosis.