LESSON 3: RA 4688 Flashcards
RA 4688 approved when
Approved on June 18, 1966
● Amended 3 years before RA 5527
Registration and License
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)
T/F: Promulgated for the purpose of preventing the operation
and maintenance of substandard, improperly managed
and poorly equipped clinical laboratories.
True
natural or juridical person who intends to operate a clinical laboratory
Applicant
BHFS
Bureau of Health Facilities and Services
CHD
Center for Health Development
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
Clinical laboratory
panic values originally described by Lundberg as “life threatening” unless something is done promptly and for which some corrective action could be undertaken
Critical values
DOH
Department of Health
EQAP;
program where participating laboratories are given unknown samples for analysis
○ This is done annually
EQAP - External Quality Assessment Program
checklist used by regulatory officers
during inspection visits to evaluate compliance of clinical laboratory to minimum standards and technical requirements
Inspection tool
corporate body or establishment organized for an educational, medical, charitable or similar purpose
Institution
issued by DOH to an individual, agency, partnership or corporation that operates a clinical laboratory upon compliance with the requirements set forth
License
individual, agency, partnership or corporation to whom the license is issued and upon whom rests compliance
Licensee
; also refers to the license
LTO
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
MOBILE CLINICAL LABORATORY
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
Monitoring examinations
laboratory in a government hospital designated by DOH to provide special functions and services for specific disease areas
○ for confirmatory testing
NRL - NATIONAL REFERENCE LABORATORY
individual doctor’s
office/clinic wherein laboratory examinations are performed
PHYSICIAN’S OFFICE LABORATORY
diagnostic testing at or near the site of patient care rather than in clinical laboratory; includes bedside testing, outpatient and home care
POCT
basic, commonly requested tests in the laboratory, the results of which are not required to be released immediately upon completion
○ Stool exam, CBC, urinalysis
Routine test
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
Satellite Testing Site
done on urgent cases, results of which shall be released immediately, within one (1) hour after the procedure.
STAT Tests
