LESSON 3: RA 4688

Question 1

RA 4688 approved when

Answer 1

Approved on June 18, 1966
● Amended 3 years before RA 5527

Question 2

Registration and License

Answer 2

SECTION 1

shall register and secure a license annually at the office of the Secretary of Health: provided, that government hospital laboratories doing routine or minimum laboratory examinations (LTO)

Question 3

T/F: Promulgated for the purpose of preventing the operation
and maintenance of substandard, improperly managed
and poorly equipped clinical laboratories.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

natural or juridical person who intends to operate a clinical laboratory

Answer 4

Applicant

Question 5

BHFS

Answer 5

Bureau of Health Facilities and Services

Question 6

CHD

Answer 6

Center for Health Development

Question 7

facility where tests are done on
specimens from human body to obtain information about health status of patient for prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases

Answer 7

Clinical laboratory

Question 8

panic values originally described by Lundberg as “life threatening” unless something is done promptly and for which some corrective action could be undertaken

Answer 8

Critical values

Question 9

DOH

Answer 9

Department of Health

Question 10

EQAP;
program where participating laboratories are given unknown samples for analysis
○ This is done annually

Answer 10

EQAP - External Quality Assessment Program

Question 11

checklist used by regulatory officers
during inspection visits to evaluate compliance of clinical laboratory to minimum standards and technical requirements

Answer 11

Inspection tool

Question 12

corporate body or establishment organized for an educational, medical, charitable or similar purpose

Answer 12

Institution

Question 13

issued by DOH to an individual, agency, partnership or corporation that operates a clinical laboratory upon compliance with the requirements set forth

Answer 13

License

Question 14

individual, agency, partnership or corporation to whom the license is issued and upon whom rests compliance

Answer 14

Licensee

Question 15

; also refers to the license

Answer 15

LTO

Question 16

laboratory testing unit that moves from testing site to another testing site, or has a temporary testing location; shall have a base
laboratory
○ Moves from one place to another; temporary testing site

Answer 16

MOBILE CLINICAL LABORATORY

Question 17

tests done in series on patients as a guide for treatment or follow-up of their condition
○ Ex: monitoring sugar, monitoring platelets in dengue patients

Answer 17

Monitoring examinations

Question 18

laboratory in a government hospital designated by DOH to provide special functions and services for specific disease areas
○ for confirmatory testing

Answer 18

NRL - NATIONAL REFERENCE LABORATORY

Question 19

individual doctor’s
office/clinic wherein laboratory examinations are performed

Answer 19

PHYSICIAN’S OFFICE LABORATORY

Question 20

diagnostic testing at or near the site of patient care rather than in clinical laboratory; includes bedside testing, outpatient and home care

Answer 20

POCT

Question 21

basic, commonly requested tests in the laboratory, the results of which are not required to be released immediately upon completion
○ Stool exam, CBC, urinalysis

Answer 21

Routine test

Question 22

any testing site that performs laboratory examinations under the administrative control of a licensed laboratory, but performed outside the physical confines of that laboratory
○ not mobile

Answer 22

Satellite Testing Site

Question 23

done on urgent cases, results of which shall be released immediately, within one (1) hour after the procedure.

Answer 23

STAT Tests