HIPAA
This federal law protects the privacy and security of patient health information.
What is HIPAA?
This type of purified water is commonly used to prepare laboratory reagents.
What is deionized water?
The primary purpose of quality control is to ensure these characteristics of laboratory results.
What is accuracy and/or precision?
This tube color contains EDTA and is commonly used for CBC testing.
What is a lavender tube?
This laboratory instrument measures the amount of light absorbed by a solution.
What is a spectrophotometer?
This term refers to information that can identify a patient and is protected under HIPAA.
What is PHI?
According to CLSI, laboratory-grade water is classified into these three purity levels.
What are types I, II, and III?
This Westgard rule is considered a warning rule and occurs when one control exceeds ±2 standard deviations.
What is the 1₂s rule?
According to phlebotomy guidelines, a tourniquet should generally not remain on a patient's arm longer than this amount of time.
What is one minute?
As absorbance increases, this measurement decreases.
What is transmittance?
A patient's name, medical record number, and date of birth are examples of these.
What are identifiers (or PHI identifiers)?
This purification method removes about 90% of dissolved solids and 98% of organic impurities and microorganisms.
What is reverse osmosis?
This Westgard rule requires rejection of a run when one control exceeds ±3 standard deviations.
What is the 1₃s rule?
After blood culture bottles, this tube is collected next in the order of draw.
What is a light blue tube?
According to Beer-Lambert Law, absorbance is directly proportional to this property of a solution.
What is concentration?
Discussing a patient's diagnosis in a crowded elevator would be considered this type of violation.
What is an unauthorized disclosure?
Distillation is effective for many contaminants but fails to remove this blind spot.
What are gasses?
A control has been slightly above the mean for 10 runs in a row, even though none of the results exceed 2 SD. This Westgard rule has been violated.
What is the 10x rule?
Repeatedly making a fist during collection can cause this preanalytical error.
What is hemoconcentration?
This laboratory item is used to set the spectrophotometer to zero before testing samples.
What is a blank?
Before sharing a patient's laboratory results with a family member, you must verify this.
What is authorization or permission?
This laboratory-grade water is commonly used for washing glassware and as an autoclave final rinse.
What is type III water?
A control result of +2.5 SD followed by another at +2.7 SD would trigger this rule violation.
What is the 2₂s rule?
If a patient becomes dizzy and pale during a blood draw, your first priority is this.
What is patient safety?
When a sample's absorbance exceeds the calibration range, this action should be performed before reporting results.
What is a dilution?