As a Micro bench tech, you suspect that Dr. Proctor might be misunderstanding how to interpret and utilize certain bacterial culture results.  What would be your best course of action?

Proper transport of specimens is in which phase?

Which of the following is NOT a quality standard specified by CLIA?

The ability of an assay to accurately detect a condition without false positive results is known as…

You discover a patient’s potassium level is life-threatengly elevated.  What should you do?

Which of the following represents the only external performance indicator required by CLIA?

One criterion used for classifying assays into a waived or nonwaived category is difficulty in accurately interpreting results.

Clinical laboratories performing moderate- or high-complexity testing are required to have an inspection…

Which of the following is included in competency assessment?  MARK ALL CORRECT RESPONSES

The CLIA categorization of test complexity is based on several criteria.  Which of the following is not included in their criteria?