Nature of Clinical Laboratory
Medical/Clinical Laboratory - examination of materials derived from the human body for the purpose of providing information on diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, or treatment of disease. AO 59 S 2001 - an order which classifies laboratories into function, institutional character, and service capability
Non-hospital-based Laboratory - also known as "Free-standing Laboratory"
Function - Laboratories classified according to ________ includes Clinical Pathology and Anatomic Pathology
institutional character - Laboratories classified according to ________ includes hospital-based and non-hospital-based
service capability - Laboratories classified according to ________ includes primary, secondary, and tertiary
service capability - Laboratories classified according to ________ is dependent on the types of test they can perform as per their DOH application
Primary and Secondary - Laboratories according to service capability which is/are not allowed to perform Blood Banking procedures
Tertiary - Laboratories according to service capability which is/are allowed to perform Blood Banking procedures
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of clinical chemistry
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of immunohematology and blood banking
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of medical microbiology
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of immunology and serology
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of hematology
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of parasitology
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of clinical microscopy
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of toxicology
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of therapeutic drug monitoring
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory which focuses on the areas of endocrinology
Clinical Pathology - a clinical laboratory concerned with the diagnosis and treatment through laboratory testing of blood and other body fluids
Anatomic Pathology – a clinical laboratory that focuses on the areas of histopathology
Anatomic Pathology – a clinical laboratory that focuses on the areas of immunohistopathology
Anatomic Pathology – a clinical laboratory that focuses on the areas of cytology
Anatomic Pathology – a clinical laboratory that focuses on the areas of autopsy
Anatomic Pathology - a clinical laboratory that focuses on the areas of forensic pathology
AO 27 S 2007 - an order which classifies laboratories according to ownership, function, institutional character, and service capability
Institution-based and freestanding - Laboratories classified according to institutional character includes hospital-based and non-hospital-based. The other terms for hospital-based and non-hospital-based are?
Ownership - Laboratories classified according to ________ includes government and private
Ownership - The main difference between AO 59 S 2001 and AO 27 S 2007 is that AO 27 S 2007 classifies laboratories according to ________, whereas AO 59 S 2001 does not.
Institution-Based - a clinical laboratory that operates within the premises or part of an institution such as hospital, school, medical clinic, medical facility for overseas workers & seafarers, birthing homes, psychiatric facility, drug rehabilitation center
Free-Standing - A clinical laboratory which is NOT part of an established institution like a free standing out patient clinical laboratory
Primary Category - Licensed to perform basic & routine lab testing like routine hematology (CBC), routine stool exam, routine urinalysis, etc.
10 square meters - Floor area requirement for laboratories under primary category
Secondary Category - a laboratory where it contains semi-automated machines
Secondary Category - licensed to perform all lab tests performed in primary lab tests as well as routine clinical chemistry examination
Secondary Category - hospital and non-hospital based laboratories fall under this category
20 square meters - Floor area requirement for laboratories under secondary category
Tertiary Category - licensed to perform all lab tests performed in secondary lab tests as well as immunology, microbiology, special clinical chemistry, special hematology, and immunohematology
60 square meters - Floor area requirement for laboratories under tertiary category
Tertiary Category – has limited service capability (institutional-based) (such as dialysis centers, social hygiene clinics)
Tertiary Category - high end with complete facilities (contains a molecular laboratory) and can perform Blood Banking procedures
National Reference Laboratory – NRL
National Reference Laboratory – also known as “Special Clinic Laboratories”
National Reference Laboratory – receives specimen from another laboratory and performs tests that the first laboratory cannot accommodate
National Reference Laboratory – most are government owned; designed by DOH to provide special functions and services such as confirmatory testing, surveillance, resolution of conflicts, training and research, evaluation kits and reagents, and external quality assessment program
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine – RITM
RITM – NRL for dengue, influenza, TB and other mycobacteria, malaria and other parasites, bacterial enteric diseases, measles and other exanthems, mycology, enteroviruses, antimicrobial resistance, and emerging disease
RITM – NRL for confirmatory testing of blood donors and blood units
East Avenue Medical Center – EAMC
EAMC – NRL for environment and Occupational Health; Toxicology and Micronutrient Assay
National Kidney and Transplant Institute – NKTI
NKTI – NRL for Hematology, Immunohematology, and Immunopathology
STD/AIDS Cooperative Central Laboratory – SACCL
San Lazaro Hospital – example of SACCL
SACCL – NRL for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and other sexually transmitted infections
Lung Center of the Philippines – LCP
LCP – NRL for Anatomic Pathology and Biochemistry
Satellite Testing Sites – any testing sites that perform laboratory examinations under the administrative control of a licensed laboratory but outside the physical confines of the laboratory.
Mobile Clinical Laboratories – a laboratory testing unit that moves from one testing site to another testing site or has a temporary testing location and a base laboratory
Mobile Clinical Laboratories – a laboratory testing site units which are licensed as a part of the main clinical laboratory and is permitted to collect specimens only (can also perform X-Ray)
100km – Mobile Clinical Laboratories shall be allowed to operate only within a _____ radius from its main laboratory.
RA 4688 S 1966 – the clinical laboratory law
Clinical Laboratory Act of 1966 – RA 4688 S 1966 is also known as?
June 18, 1966 – Date when RA 4688 S 1966 was approved
RA 4688 S 1966 – an act that regulates the operation, maintenance and registration of clinical laboratories in the Philippines
Clinical Laboratory – is made up of different sections cohesively and comprehensively performing different activities and procedures for each specimen collected from patients to produce reliable test results
Pathologists – at the forefront of these activities (in the lab) are the clinical laboratory personnel headed by the ______