Chapter 1: Introduction
Multiple-Choice Questions:
Level I
1. Which two populations account for the greatest difference in reference intervals?
a. Adults and 12-year-olds
b. Newborns and 12-year-olds
c. Newborns and adults
d. Whites and blacks
Correct answer: C
(Objective 1)
2. What component of plasma assists in the transport of bilirubin?
a. Enzymes
b. Hydrogen
c. Calcium
d. Albumin
Correct answer: D
(Objective 3)
3. When bilirubin is increased above the reference range, what disease process
should be suspected if liver disease is ruled out?
a. Increased osmotic pressure
b. Hormone imbalance
c. Decreased albumin
d. Increased metabolism of hemoglobin
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,Correct answer: D
(Objective 3)
4. Which of the following can explain a decrease of erythrocytes?
a. Blood loss
b. Infection
c. Dehydration
d. Neutropenia
Correct answer: A
(Objective 4)
5. Platelets and coagulation proteins are circulating components responsible for what
process?
a. Hemolysis
b. Hemostasis
c. Normal cell production
d. Immune defense
Correct answer: B
(Objective 2)
6. The focus of a clinical pathway is on changing structure and processes to achieve
what goal?
a. Provide assistance in difficult diagnostic cases
b. Provide better patient outcomes
c. Develop better communication among the health care team
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, d. Decrease laboratory test utilization
Correct answer: B
(Objective 5)
7. Under Medicare for laboratory testing, what codes are used for billing purposes?
a. Fee for service
b. Prospective payment service
c. Current procedural terminology
d. Capitated payment plan
Correct answer: C
(Objective 5)
8. Under a capitated payment plan, the provider is decided upon by whom?
a. The insurer
b. The consumer or patient
c. Health care organizations
d. Physicians groups
Correct answer: A
(Objective 6)
9. Under managed cost plans, laboratory services must be considered as what?
a. A source of revenue
b. A managed resource
c. A reimbursement source
d. A cost
Correct answer: B
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, (Objective 6)
10. The predominant blood leukocyte found in children is the:
a. Monocyte.
b. Lymphocyte.
c. Neutrophil.
d. Eosinophil.
Correct answer: B
(Objective 1)
11. The cellular component of blood that is involved in hemostasis is:
a. Leukocyte.
b. Erythrocyte.
c. Thrombocyte.
d. Hemoglobin.
Correct answer: C
(Objective 2)
12. The protein found in erythrocytes that is responsible for oxygen transport is:
a. Albumin.
b. Gamma globulin.
c. Oxygen protein.
d. Hemoglobin.
Correct answer: D
(Objective 2)
13. Which of the following is NOT a cellular component of blood?
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Multiple-Choice Questions:
Level I
1. Which two populations account for the greatest difference in reference intervals?
a. Adults and 12-year-olds
b. Newborns and 12-year-olds
c. Newborns and adults
d. Whites and blacks
Correct answer: C
(Objective 1)
2. What component of plasma assists in the transport of bilirubin?
a. Enzymes
b. Hydrogen
c. Calcium
d. Albumin
Correct answer: D
(Objective 3)
3. When bilirubin is increased above the reference range, what disease process
should be suspected if liver disease is ruled out?
a. Increased osmotic pressure
b. Hormone imbalance
c. Decreased albumin
d. Increased metabolism of hemoglobin
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Laboratory Hematology, 2nd Edition
,Correct answer: D
(Objective 3)
4. Which of the following can explain a decrease of erythrocytes?
a. Blood loss
b. Infection
c. Dehydration
d. Neutropenia
Correct answer: A
(Objective 4)
5. Platelets and coagulation proteins are circulating components responsible for what
process?
a. Hemolysis
b. Hemostasis
c. Normal cell production
d. Immune defense
Correct answer: B
(Objective 2)
6. The focus of a clinical pathway is on changing structure and processes to achieve
what goal?
a. Provide assistance in difficult diagnostic cases
b. Provide better patient outcomes
c. Develop better communication among the health care team
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Laboratory Hematology, 2nd Edition
, d. Decrease laboratory test utilization
Correct answer: B
(Objective 5)
7. Under Medicare for laboratory testing, what codes are used for billing purposes?
a. Fee for service
b. Prospective payment service
c. Current procedural terminology
d. Capitated payment plan
Correct answer: C
(Objective 5)
8. Under a capitated payment plan, the provider is decided upon by whom?
a. The insurer
b. The consumer or patient
c. Health care organizations
d. Physicians groups
Correct answer: A
(Objective 6)
9. Under managed cost plans, laboratory services must be considered as what?
a. A source of revenue
b. A managed resource
c. A reimbursement source
d. A cost
Correct answer: B
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Laboratory Hematology, 2nd Edition
, (Objective 6)
10. The predominant blood leukocyte found in children is the:
a. Monocyte.
b. Lymphocyte.
c. Neutrophil.
d. Eosinophil.
Correct answer: B
(Objective 1)
11. The cellular component of blood that is involved in hemostasis is:
a. Leukocyte.
b. Erythrocyte.
c. Thrombocyte.
d. Hemoglobin.
Correct answer: C
(Objective 2)
12. The protein found in erythrocytes that is responsible for oxygen transport is:
a. Albumin.
b. Gamma globulin.
c. Oxygen protein.
d. Hemoglobin.
Correct answer: D
(Objective 2)
13. Which of the following is NOT a cellular component of blood?
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