Quality, Law, and Ethics Flashcards
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Which regulatory body sets the standards for laboratory testing quality in the United States under CLIA?
Answer: CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
CMS administers the CLIA program, which establishes quality standards that all clinical laboratories must meet to perform testing on human specimens.
A phlebotomist performs a blood draw without proper patient identification and the wrong patient receives a blood transfusion. This could result in which legal action?
Answer: Criminal negligence and civil malpractice lawsuit
Failure to properly identify a patient leading to harm constitutes both criminal negligence and potential civil malpractice, as it represents a breach of the standard of care.
What is a proficiency testing (PT) program in laboratory quality management?
Answer: External quality assessment where unknown samples are tested and results compared to peer laboratories
Proficiency testing involves a laboratory receiving unknown samples from an external agency, testing them, and having their results compared to other laboratories using the same methods.
Which ethical principle requires a phlebotomist to always act in the best interest of the patient?
Answer: Beneficence
Beneficence is the ethical principle that requires healthcare workers to act in ways that benefit the patient and promote their well-being.
What does the delta check in laboratory quality assurance evaluate?
Answer: The comparison of a patient's current results to their previous results for the same test
A delta check compares a patient's current test result with their previous result to identify unexpectedly large changes that may indicate an error.
Under what circumstance can a phlebotomist legally draw blood without patient consent?
Answer: When ordered by a physician during a life-threatening emergency
In life-threatening emergencies where the patient is unable to give consent, implied consent allows necessary medical procedures including blood draws to proceed under physician orders.
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