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• What does ISO stands for?

  International Organization for Standardization
• What law is followed by all institutions in the world?

  ISO 9000-QMS
• What law is being followed by the Philippines?

  Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute
• What standard is being followed by ALL CLINICAL LABORATORIES?

  ISO 15189: 2012
• What standard is being followed by ALL TESTING and CALIBRATING LABORATORIES?

  ISO 17025: 2017
• Total Testing Process: Multistep process that begins and ends with the needs of the patient
• Total testing process: Series of steps that allows careful planning using interdisciplinary team and principles to improve the overall process in the clinical laboratory and provided the optimal patient care.
• Total testing process provides a comprehensive what for evaluating the components of a laboratory's efficiency in testing?

  working model
• What are the 3 phases of TOTAL TESTING PROCESS?

  Pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical
• Pre-analytical: patient identification
• Pre-analytical: test order
• Pre-analytical: sample collection
• Pre-analytical: specimen transport
• Pre-analytical: specimen storage
• analytical: instruments and reagent
• analytical: test results
• post-analytical: reporting of results
• post-analytical: interpretation of test results
• Basal state: Resting metabolic state of the body in the morning after fasting for approximately 12 hours
• pre-analytical test begins with what?

  test order
• pre-analytical test ends with what?

  beginning of testing
• In patient identification, at least how many should be the PATIENT IDENTIFIERS?

  2
• Who suggested that there should at least 2 patient identifiers?

  2022 National Patient Safety Goals