The primary care NP sees a new patient, age 58, who has diab…

The primary care NP sees a new patient, age 58, who has diabetes and hypertension and has been taking a thiazide diuretic for 6 months. The patient’s blood pressure at the beginning of treatment was 150/95 mm Hg. The blood pressure today is 148/85 mm Hg. The NP knows that the best medication to choose would be:

Control values are running outside the acceptable range of a…

Control values are running outside the acceptable range of a stable analyzer for the last 5 days.  The scientist in charge has troubleshooted possible causes and has discovered that the pipette used in the reconstitution of the controls needs calibration.  This represents an error in which phase of laboratory analysis?