LABORATORIES EXEMPTED TO SECURE LICENSE TO OPERATE FROM BHFS

Question 1

Laboratories for _________ and __________ PURPOSES
o NOTE: Must be registered to

Answer 1

RESEARCH; TEACHING; BHFS every 3 years

Question 2

_______ laboratories independently operating from clinical laboratories

Answer 2

Special

Question 3

independently operating from the hospital laboratory

Answer 3

National Reference Laboratories (NRL)

Question 4

National Reference Laboratories (NRL):
o Provide laboratory _________________ services for confirmatory testing
o ______ laboratory personnel and recognize other training institutions.
o Maintain the ____________________________________
o Perform __________ evaluation of reagents and ____________ kits.

Answer 4

reference/referral; Train; National External Quality Assessment Scheme (NEQAS); technical; diagnostic

Question 5

Physician’s Office Laboratory (NOTE: for monitoring patients only _____)
Must secure license if:
 Issue ______ laboratory results
 Perform more than ___________ tests
 Cater not only to ____________________

Answer 5

POCT; official; monitoring; physician’s own patients

Question 6

performing microscopy works for malarial screening, AFB screening for STDs and PAP’s smear, (addtl. Kato Katz).

Answer 6

Government laboratories

Question 7

HIV and STD

Answer 7

STD AIDS Cooperative Central Laboratory (SACCL) & RITM

Question 8

Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM)

Answer 8

TTIs
Virology
Malaria & Tuberculosis
Mycology

Question 9

Clinical Chemistry

Answer 9

Lung Center of the Philippines (LCP)

Question 10

Water & Drug Testing

Answer 10

East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC)

Question 11

National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI)

Answer 11

Hematology
Automated CM
Immunohematology
Anatomic pathologist

Question 12

Clinical Laboratory with Satellite Laboratory in the same compound

Answer 12

1 LTO only

Question 13

Satellite Lab outside the premises of the Central Laboratory

Answer 13

separate LTO

Question 14

licensed as part of the central laboratory

Answer 14

Mobile laboratory

Question 15

o Has a _______ laboratory, but specimen collection is done mobile (moving)
o NOTE: only collects _________
o NOTE: must operate only within a _______________ from the central laboratory

Answer 15

central; specimens; 100 km radius

Question 16

operate within and under the management and supervision of the licensed laboratory of the hospital

Answer 16

Point of Care testing

Question 17

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Answer 17

• External Quality Assurance and Internal Quality Control Programs
• CQI
• EQAP

Question 18

WASTE MANAGEMENT
There shall be provisions for the adequate and efficient disposal of the waste following guidelines of the DOH and the local government.
Penalties For Violations:
* 1st offense:
* 2nd offense:
* 3rd offense:
* 4th offense:

Answer 18

Penalties For Violations:
* 1st offense: Written Stern warning
* 2nd offense: Thirty thousand pesos (Php 30,000.00)
* 3rd offense: Fifty thousand pesos (Php 50,000.00)
* 4th offense: Revocation of DOH-LTO