A quality control/assessment which focuses on reducing waste
What is Lean?
100
The tool that labs use to deliver data
What is LIS?
100
Most chemistry analyzers (instruments) use this technology
What is spectrophotometry?
100
Sept 22
What is when autumn begins?
200
Simple procedures with little chance of negative outcomes if performed inaccurately
What is a waived test?
200
Defined as the worth of services
What is quality?
200
Name of the first stain in a Gram stain
What is Crystal Violet?
200
1 Step in Automated Analysis
What is 1) specimen collection and processing 2) Specimen and reagent measurement and delivery 3) Chemical reaction phase 4) measurement phase 5) Signal processing
200
Ms Donna's favorite thing to do
What is to sing?
300
A gradual change in data
What is a trend or drift?
300
Oversight of instrument flags, out of control quality control results are examples of this
What is analytical phase of testing?
300
Results that MUST be communicated immediately
What is a critical patient result?
300
Purpose of LIS
What is to put patient demographics, results, ordering information, looking up previous results etc
300
Inhibits thrombin
What is Heparin?
400
Guaiac
What is a phenolic compound that produces a blue color when oxidized - Occult blood
400
Highly purified substances of a known composition
What is a standard?
400
A process where computer based algorithms automatically perform actions on a defined subset of laboratory results without the need for manual intervention
What is autoverification?
400
Name 1 POCT type test
What is Glucose, PT/INR
400
Number 1 thing that is important to Ms Donna
What is being on time?
500
Tests for hemoglobin in fecal specimens
What is fecal occult blood?
500
The middle value of a body of data
What is median?
500
HIPPA
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
500
The urine crystal you would find in a patient that has gout