Laboratory Safety and Quality Management

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Centrifuging an uncapped tube of urine is most likely to produce a/an:

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Aerosol

Front

Which of the following guidelines states that laboratory personnel should consider all patients as possible carriers of blood-borne pathogens?

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Standard precautions

Front

Quality management (QM) refers to:

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Entire testing processes

Front

Obtaining the same result after testing the same specimen three times is called test

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Precision

Front

The ability to obtain the published result on a control specimen is referred to as:

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Accuracy

Front

When a critical value is obtained in the laboratory:

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The result must be reported to the health-care provider

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The acceptable method for disposing of urine specimens is:

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Pouring the urine specimen down the sink followed by copious amounts of water