CCMA Chap 11: Testing & Lab Procedures

Federal standards that regulate laboratory testing, handling, and processing. Ambulatory care centers typically perform _______-waived testing, which is the simplest of laboratory procedures.

• CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments)
• Quality Assurance
• Controls
• Chain of Custody

A urine specimen collected in a clean container for screening purposes; no preparation is required.

• Clean-catch midstream
• Random urine
• First morning specimen
• 24-hour urine

A urine specimen that is collected in the middle of the urinary stream in a sterile container after perineal cleaning.

• Random urine
• 24-hour urine
• Catheterized collection
• Clean-catch midstream

Evaluation of a stool specimen for hidden blood. 

• Fecal culture
• Fecal occult blood
• Ova & parasites
• Hemoglobin

Analysis that identifies quantity or actual number counts.

• qualitative
• controls
• quantitative
• panel

Testing that analyzes quality or characteristics such as size, shape, and maturity of cells; typically reported as positive or negative.

• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Controls
• COLA

This capillary blood test shows diabetes control over an approximate 3-month period.

• Blood glucose
• Hemoglobin
• Cholesterol testing
• Hemoglobin A1c

Urine is screened for the presence of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG)

• Pregnancy testing
• Rapid Streptococcus testing
• Hemoglobin
• Cholesterol testing

This screening is a qualitative test for influenza antigens using a swab that is inserted into the nostril.

• Drug testing
• Fecal occult blood
• Helicobacter pylori
• Nasal smear for flu types A & B

A machine is used to screen for the oxygen-carrying protein in whole blood, performed using capillary blood from a fingerstick (capillary puncture).

• Hematocrit
• Hemoglobin
• Helicobactor pylori
• Drug testing