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waived test

Medical term Safety and Compliance

CLIA category for tests cleared for home use, simple and accurate enough that errors are unlikely, or harmless if done wrong; a Certificate of Waiver covers them.

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Free practice questions that use waived test

  • Processing, question 4A clinic sends a specimen to a reference lab to confirm a waived test result. What should the clinic's records link?

Related terms

  • CLIAClinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments: federal law covering any site that tests human specimens. A site…
  • temperature logRecord of refrigerator, freezer or room temperatures for stored supplies and specimens; never guess a missed…
  • trailing zeroZero after a decimal point (5.0 mg). Do Not Use list: in medication orders 5.0 can be read as 50; write 5…
  • transmission-based precautionsContact, droplet or airborne measures added on top of standard precautions when a patient has, or may have…
  • universal precautionsOSHA approach: handle all human blood and certain body fluids as though they contain HBV, HIV or other…
  • work practice controlsSafer ways of doing a task that cut exposure risk, for example never recapping a used needle with both hands.

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