Ch. 38 Safety and Regulatory Guidelines on the Medical Laboratory
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Comprehensive Medical Assisting
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Acetone | Colorless, inflammable liquid. Found in the flood and urine of diabetics as a result of the breakdown of fatty acids |
| Aegis | Sponsorship or protection |
| Body Fluid | Any secretion or excretion from the human body such as vaginal, cerebrospinal, synovial, pleural, pericardial, peritoneal, amniotic, sputum, and saliva |
| Calibration | Determination of the accuracy of an instrument by comparing the information provided with an accepted standard known to be accurate |
| Chemotherapeutic Agents | Agents used in the treatment of diseases; the application of chemical reagents that are toxic to pathogenic microorganisms. Commonly used to describe agents (chemicals) used in the treatment of certain malignancies |
| Communicable | Contagious; capable of being transmitted from one person to another either directly or indirectly |
| Ethyl Alcohol | alcohol; used to make a solution |
| Excretion | Waste matter; the elimination of waste products from the body |
| Formaldehyde | Colorless gas combined with methanol and used as a solution, such as a disinfectant, astringent, or a perservative for histologic specimen |
| Fume Hood | Type of hood or barrier ised in the laboratory to capture chemical vapors and fumes and move them away from health care workers abd into a building's exhaust fan system |
| Mandate | Formal order to obey certain rules and regulations |
| Medical Asepsis | Clean and free from infection |
| Proficiency Testing | Sample tests performed in a clinical laboratory to determine with what degree of accuarcy tests are being performed. Test samples are checked in the same manner as patient specimens |
| Provider Performed Microscopy Procedure (PPMP) | A CLIA term for those microscopic examinations that require the expertise of a physician or mid-level provider qualified in microscopic examinations. The PPMP is part of the CLIA's moderate complex category of tests |
| Pulmonary Edema | Accumulation of serous fluid in the air vesicles and interstitial tissues of the lungs |
| Quality Assurance (QA) | Process to provide accurate, complete, consistent health care documentation in a timely manner while making every reasonable effort to resolve inconsistencies, inaccuracies, risk management issues, and other problems |
| Quality Control | Measures used to monitor the processing of laboratory sepcimens. Includes proper use, storage, handling, stability, expiration dates, and indications for measuring precision and accuracy of analytic processes |
| Reimbursement | payment |
| Requisition | Request form sent with a specimen specifying tests to be performed on the specimen; most common tests are separated into logical categories with additional space for writing special requests |
| Secretion | Substances produced by the cells of glandular organs from materials in the blood |
| Suppressed Immune System | An immune system that is unable to function normally due to the presence of a disease, such as AIDS |
| Waived | A category of clinical laboratory tests that are simple, unvarying, and require a minimum of judgment and interpretation |
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