Quick Review Cards for Medical Laboratory Science

Brightfield Microscopy continued TERM EXPLANATION Magnification, total Numerical aperture (NA) Objectives Ocular Parcentric Parf ...

Other Types of Microscopy Laboratory Operations Review 39 EXPLANATION APPLICATION IN CLINICAL LABORATORY Light Microscopes Darkf ...

Other Types of Microscopy continued EXPLANATION APPLICATION IN CLINICAL LABORATORY Electron Microscopes Transmission Scanning Vi ...

Informatics Laboratory Operations Review 41 TERM EXPLANATION Informatics Information science. Science of processing data for sto ...

Computer Hardware Laboratory Operations Review 42 TERM EXPLANATION Hardware CPU RAM ROM Hard drive Disk drive Optical disks Peri ...

Computer Software Laboratory Operations Review 43 TERM EXPLANATION Software Operating system software Application software Word ...

Information Systems Laboratory Operations Review 44 TERM EXPLANATION Laboratory information system (LIS) Hospital information sy ...

Computer Networks Laboratory Operations Review 45 TERM EXPLANATION Local area network (LAN) Wide area network (WAN) Internet Int ...

Quality Assessment Laboratory Operations Review 46 TERM EXPLANATION Quality assessment or quality assurance (QA) Preanalytical Q ...

Quality Control Laboratory Operations Review 47 TERM EXPLANATION Quality control (QC) Control External QC Internal monitoring sy ...

Quality Control Statistics Laboratory Operations Review 48 TERM EXPLANATION Measures of dispersion Range Mean Standard deviation ...

Quality Control Statisticscontinued TERM EXPLANATION Normal distribution The Gaussian bell-shaped curve: 68% of values fall with ...

Interpretation of Quality Control Data Laboratory Operations Review 50 TERM EXPLANATION Control limits Levey-Jennings chart Rang ...

Interpretation of Quality Control Datacontinued TERM EXPLANATION Outlier Shift A control result outside established limits. May ...

Interpretation of Quality Control Datacontinued TERM EXPLANATION Trend Error, random Error, systematic False rejection Control v ...

Westgard Multirules Laboratory Operations Review 53 RULE EXPLANATION TYPE OF ERROR COMMENTS (^1) 2S (^1) 3S (^2) 2S R4S (^4) 1S ...

Typical Steps Taken When a Control Is Outside Acceptable Range* Laboratory Operations Review 54 STEP RATIONALE Hold patient resu ...

Calibration Laboratory Operations Review 55 TERM EXPLANATION Calibration Process of testing & adjusting analyzer’s readout t ...

Test Performance Specifications and Verification Laboratory Operations Review 56 CLIA requires labs to verify manufacturer’s ana ...

Test Performance Specifications and Verificationcontinued PARAMETER EXPLANATION VERIFICATION Analytical sensitivity Analytical ...