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The HIPAA privacy rule and risk management affect the laboratory in all the following situations except

A substance or ingredient used in a laboratory test to detect, measure, examine, or produce a reaction is a(n) ____________________.

The federal law that requires all physician’s office laboratories (POLs) to meet acceptable standards of accuracy in test results is

The overall process of improving reliability and quality of laboratory tests is quality assurance.

A wet mount will contain cells in water and stain.

When an explanation of laboratory test results is requested by the patient, how should lab workers respond?

Internal controls are controls provided by the manufacture which are ran before patient specimens to check the reliability of an instrument.

Protected health information includes any health information in any form.

If a POL is performing moderate-complex tests, CLIA requires all of the following except

A Levy-Jennings chart is used to visualize the results of calibration of instrument settings.