Healthcare Quality Assurance and Legal Issues

To improve performance and guarantee quality patient care by identifying and minimizing situations that pose risk to patients and employees.

To identify and minimize situations that pose risk to patients and employees.

An independent, non-profit organization that establishes standards for the operation of hospitals and other health-related facilities and services.

<p>To establish quality standards that apply to all facilities, including clinics and physicians’ office laboratories, that test human specimens.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Quality assurance, quality control, proficiency testing, laboratory records, and personnel qualifications.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of patient test results regardless of the location, type or size of the laboratory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To continuously improve performance and guarantee quality patient care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to provide technical and scientific advice and guidance to the CMS</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>waived, moderate, and high complexity</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to prevent problems in the future by evaluating present and past performance</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>QC is a component of a QA program</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>preanalytical stage</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to make certain procedures are performed correctly</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A wrongful act committed against someone's person, property, reputation or other legally protected right, for which the individual is entitled to damages awarded by the court.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An act or threat causing another to be in fear of immediate battery.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An intentional harmful or offensive touching of or use of force on another person without consent or legal justification.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A deceitful practice for false portrayal of facts either by words or by conduct, often done to obtain money or property.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The violation of one's right to be left alone, which can involve a physical intrusion or the unauthorized publishing or release of private information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The failure to keep privileged medical information private.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Doing or not doing something that a reasonable person would not do or do.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Latin phrase meaning 'the thing speaks for itself', which applies to the rule of evidence in a case of negligence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide an aid to the practice of medicine, communication, and as a legal document, and to evaluate performance outcomes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>History of examinations, medical testing, laboratory reports, prescriptions written, and supplies used.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The chance of loss or injury.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Identifying and minimizing situations that pose risk to patients and employees.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sex discrimination.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide an objective account of the patient's past and present medical history.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To monitor and evaluate the appropriateness and cost-effectiveness of care.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The patient must be prepared properly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The individual's name, assigned ID number, telephone number, date of birth, social security number, address, and photography.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To ensure patient safety.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To compare current results of a laboratory test with previous results for the same test on the same patient.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To prevent medical errors due to wrong information.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To provide a chronological documentation of the medical care given.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Labeling must be exact.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To recognize which specimen request is the most critical and involves special collection criteria.</p> Signup and view all the answers