Medical Law and Ethics Test Questions with Verified
Answers Rated A
CLIA - -Clinical Laboratory Improvement rights and responsibilities of consumers, health
Amendments, passed by Congress to establish care professionals, health care institutions, and
standards for imporving the quality of laboratory insurance plans; varies from state to state; the
testing in the United States Medical Assistant and all employees of the
medical field must protect the patients' rights
Waived Tests - -laboratory tests that have
been determined by HHS to meet the CLIA A Living Will - -a document that expressed
criteria for being simple procedures and have low the wishes of a patient in case of terminal illness
risk for erroneous test results; example is blood or an accident after which they cannot express
glucose testing their wishes
Moderate-Complexity Tests - -non-waived PPE - -Personal Protective Equipment;
tests that are subject to the CLIA 1998 masks, goggles, face shileds, respirators, etc.
regulations; most performed at hospitals,
independent laboratories, and some medical
offices; examples are urine/throat cultures, Standard Precautions - -a set of infection
hematology, and blood chemistry tests control practices used to prevent transmission of
diseases that can be acquired by contact with
blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including
High-Complexity Tests - -non-waived tests rashes), and mucous membranes; these
that are subject to the CLIA 1998 regulations; measures are to be used when providing care to
these tests are not completed in medical offices all individuals, whether they appear infectious or
and are performed in laboratories already subject symptomatic
to federal regulations; examples are
cytogenetics, histopathology, and cytology tests;
these tests are not performed by a medical Transmission-Based Precautions - -the
assistant second tier of precautions is to be used when the
patient is known or suspected of being infected
with contagious disease; to be used in addition to
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services standard precautions; in all situations, whether
(CMS) - -a division of the Department of used alone or in combination, using the utmost
Health and Human Services; responsible for care regarding patient and employee is crucial;
regulating and operating under the CLIA program transmission based precautions are contact
precautions, airborne precautions, and droplet
precautions
Patient's Bills of Rights - -referred to as the
Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities,
which was adopted by the Presidential Advisory Contact Precautions - -Infectious agents
Commission on Consumer Protection and (bacteria, viruses or parasites) transmitted
Quality in the Health Care Industry; this directly or indirectly from one infected or
document was created to improve consumer colonized person to a susceptible host (patient),
trust in the Health Care System by defining the often on the contaminated hands of a health
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Answers Rated A
CLIA - -Clinical Laboratory Improvement rights and responsibilities of consumers, health
Amendments, passed by Congress to establish care professionals, health care institutions, and
standards for imporving the quality of laboratory insurance plans; varies from state to state; the
testing in the United States Medical Assistant and all employees of the
medical field must protect the patients' rights
Waived Tests - -laboratory tests that have
been determined by HHS to meet the CLIA A Living Will - -a document that expressed
criteria for being simple procedures and have low the wishes of a patient in case of terminal illness
risk for erroneous test results; example is blood or an accident after which they cannot express
glucose testing their wishes
Moderate-Complexity Tests - -non-waived PPE - -Personal Protective Equipment;
tests that are subject to the CLIA 1998 masks, goggles, face shileds, respirators, etc.
regulations; most performed at hospitals,
independent laboratories, and some medical
offices; examples are urine/throat cultures, Standard Precautions - -a set of infection
hematology, and blood chemistry tests control practices used to prevent transmission of
diseases that can be acquired by contact with
blood, body fluids, non-intact skin (including
High-Complexity Tests - -non-waived tests rashes), and mucous membranes; these
that are subject to the CLIA 1998 regulations; measures are to be used when providing care to
these tests are not completed in medical offices all individuals, whether they appear infectious or
and are performed in laboratories already subject symptomatic
to federal regulations; examples are
cytogenetics, histopathology, and cytology tests;
these tests are not performed by a medical Transmission-Based Precautions - -the
assistant second tier of precautions is to be used when the
patient is known or suspected of being infected
with contagious disease; to be used in addition to
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services standard precautions; in all situations, whether
(CMS) - -a division of the Department of used alone or in combination, using the utmost
Health and Human Services; responsible for care regarding patient and employee is crucial;
regulating and operating under the CLIA program transmission based precautions are contact
precautions, airborne precautions, and droplet
precautions
Patient's Bills of Rights - -referred to as the
Consumer Bill of Rights and Responsibilities,
which was adopted by the Presidential Advisory Contact Precautions - -Infectious agents
Commission on Consumer Protection and (bacteria, viruses or parasites) transmitted
Quality in the Health Care Industry; this directly or indirectly from one infected or
document was created to improve consumer colonized person to a susceptible host (patient),
trust in the Health Care System by defining the often on the contaminated hands of a health
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