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Phlebotomy Chap-123
hartmans Publishing Inc
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Providers | People or organizations that provide healthcare including doctors, nurses, clinics and agencies |
| Facilities | Places where care is delivered or administered. Ex: Clinical labs, hospitals, doctors' offices, and treatment centers, |
| Payers | People or organizations paying for healthcare services |
| Impatient setting | provided to patients who must stay at the health care facility overnight ex: mostly hospitals |
| Outpatient setting | common for surgery and other procedures that once required a hospital to stay Ex: Urgent care centers, public health clinics, doctors' offices and freestanding emergency departments (not connected to a hospital) are outpatient facility's . |
| Acute | short tern illness that must be treated immediately |
| Discharge | allowed to leave the facility |
| Admitted | checked into receive impatient care |
| Long term care facilities | businesses that provide skilled care 24/7 to residents who live in their facilities |
| Clinical laboratories | Collect and analyze specimens from patients to provide to doctors and other healthcare professionals with information |
| Specimens | Samples from patients. Ex: blood, urine, stool, and sputum, body cells like swab collecting. |
| Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) | educational requirements for certain laboratories employees, rules for handling patient specimens and test, and quality assurance and control practices. Goal is for patients to receive the best and quality care. |
| hematology | blood, blood diseases and coagulation |