How Should Quality Control Testing Occur

question 16

Multiple Choice

How should quality control testing occur?

• A) One specified microbiologist should use extreme care when doing quality control testing, using special pipettes, special agar plates, and special incubators.
• B) The procedure should be followed to a T, and if any mistake is made, the test should be discarded and started again.
• C) The microbiology supervisor should perform all quality control testing.
• D) Quality control testing should be included in all the patients tested and treated like a patient specimen.

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