You are on an ambulance responding to a mass-casualty incident at a shopping mall on a warm Saturday afternoon. En route, you listen to the incident commander broadcast information to dispatch and all inbound units about 20 patients complaining of respiratory difficulty and a burning sensation in their eyes. Your suspicions of a potential terrorist incident are the result of:

A) the location of the call. B) the timing of the event.
C) the type of event. D) on-scene warning signs.

C

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As you process specimens, some of them need to be transferred to another tube for shipping to a reference laboratory. Other specimens need to have aliquots sent to different sections of your laboratory. What is the proper way to label the secondary specimen containers?

A. Only the name of the patient needs to be on the secondary container. B. All patient information that is on the original specimen must appear on separated specimens. C. Only the laboratory accession number needs to be on the secondary container. D. All patient and phlebotomist information that is on the original specimen must appear on separated specimens.

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Using a computer-based clinical guideline system to evaluate the quality of care provided to inpatient pneumonia cases would be most closely linked to:

A. bio-informatics. B. health informatics. C. health information management. D. all of these.

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