Professionals Within the Clinical Laboratory Flashcards
- Pathologist
- Medical doctors
- Doctoral scientist
- Doctors of Osteopathy
- has ultimate responsibility for all laboratory operations
Laboratory Director
Usually someone educated in the laboratory sciences and with additional business or management training; Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the laboratory
Laboratory Manager
Responsible for setting personnel standards, establishing training and evaluation procedures, establishing appropriate quality control programs, and observing and documenting employee performance and competence; Monitor manuals containing instructions for every procedure performed in the laboratory
Laboratory Manager
Responsible for the quantity and quality of work performed in his/her department
General Supervisor/ Department Head/Section Head
Responsible for training employees and for evaluating employee performance.
General Supervisor/ Department Head/Section Head
Individuals who actually perform the laboratory analyses.
Testing Personnel/ Bench Technologist/Staff Medical Technologist
Assist Med.Tech. in the performance of different laboratory assays.
Laboratory Technician / Med. Lab. Technician
Perform blood extractions
Phlebotomist/Laboratory Nurse
clean & maintain equipment
Laboratory Aide
the most studied hindrance to the use of health facility. The more distant a facility is from potential users, the less likely it is to be visited.
Distance
Demand for health care is based upon felt needs. Doctors assess whether felt needs are actual needs. Some turn out to be so. Self-perceived need determines whether or not an individual is in the market for health care. It is the immediate cause of decision to seek medical care.
Health Need
An individual’s health, knowledge and beliefs affect his efficiency in maintaining personal health through dietary, hygienic, and preventive.
Health Knowledge and Beliefs
may enable a person to recognize early symptoms of illness, resulting in the patient’s greater willingness to seek early treatment. The patient spends more for preventive services and less for curative services.
education
the use of health services is unpredictable. A large family has a higher frequency of illness since it has more potential patients.
Family size
factors such as age and health status are considered in a model specification. However, attempts to do so yielded weak results; only marginal differences in usage were detected.
Sex
The incidence of illness varies with , so does the need for health care. The presence of children and elderly persons in the family raises the frequency of illness, which in turn increases the use of health services.
Age
viewed as a method of financing the demand for health care. It not only reduces the cost of care, it also increases the family’s ability to secure health services. Therefore, health insurance is expected to raise the utilization and expenditure of health care.
Health insurance
has a negative effect on the demand for health care. Although total demand for health care was found in several studies to be not so responsive to price changes, selection of the source of health care services was observed to be influenced by the price factor. For example, Heller discovered that the decision to use or not to use public facilities was affected by the price of private health care.
Price
Higher families tend to have higher actual use of health services because they are able to afford the cost.
Income
also afford preventive care, they are able to reduce their real need for health services.
double effect of income
Facilities that perform chemical and microscopic examinations of various body fluids like blood, and tissues.
clinical laboratory
clinical chemistry, hematology, immunohematology, microbiology, immunology, clinical microscopy, endocrinology, molecular biology, cytogenetics, toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring
Clinical Pathology
surgical pathology, immunohistopathology, cytology, autopsy, forensic pathology, and molecular pathology
Anatomic pathology
hospital, medical clinic, school, medical facility for overseas workers and seafarers, birthing home, psychiatric facility, drug rehabilitation center
institution based
- minimum service capabilities
Routine hematology: hgb, rbc count, hct, WBC count, leukocyte differential count
Qualitative platelet determination
Routine urinalysis
Routine fecalysis
Blood typing: for hospital based
General clinical laboratory: Primary category
Routine clinical chemistry: blood glucose, BUN, URCA, creatinine, total cholesterol
Quantitative platelet determination
Cross matching: hospital based
Gram staining: hospital based
KOH: hospital based
General Clinical Laboratory: Secondary category
Special chemistry
Special hematology: coagulation procedures
Immunology
Microbiology: culture and sensitivity
Aerobic and anaerobic: hospital based
Aerobic or anaerobic: non hospital based
General clinical laboratory: tertiary category
institution based only; dialysis centers and social hygiene clinics
limited service capability
offers highly specialized laboratory services that are usually not provided by a general clinical laboratory
special clinical laboratory
Dialysis centers, social hygiene clinics
Limited service capability
Fertility labs, molecular and cellular lab, molecular biology lab, research facilities
special laboratories
laboratories in government hospitals which has been designated by the DOH to provide special functions and services
National Reference Laboratories
National Reference Laboratory functions
- Confirmatory testing
- Training and research
- Surveillance
- Evaluation of kits and reagents
- Resolution of conflicts
- External quality assessment programs
any testing sites that performs lab examinations under the administrative control of a licensed laboratory but outside the physical confines of the institution’s laboratory
Satellite Testing Sites
Any testing unit that moves from one testing site to another. Temporary location
- shall be licensed as part of the main clinical laboratory and is permitted to collect specimens only
- shall be allowed to operate only w/I 100km radius from the min laboratory
Mobile Clinical Laboratory
ASCLS - formerly ASMT
American Association of Clinical Laboratory Science
