To Reduce Workload in Your Chemistry Laboratory,you Are Setting Up

question 10

Multiple Choice

To reduce workload in your chemistry laboratory,you are setting up a small laboratory on the opposite side of your large city from the main laboratory.When preparing the new laboratory's chemistry analyzer,you decide to use the reference values that have been generated by the main laboratory's chemistry analyzer,which is a larger model (but similar in all other respects) than yours.Can this be justified?

• A) No,because each analyzer will produce completely different results from the other laboratory.
• B) No,because the populations that will be tested are completely different.
• C) Yes,if certain conditions have been fulfilled,such as population matching,data comparison,analytical performance agreement,and specimen standardization.
• D) Yes,because you cannot afford to perform reference value determinations in your laboratory.

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Definitions:

Unconditional Positive Regard

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Self-Actualization

The realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, considered as a drive or need present in everyone, according to Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

Population

The total number of individuals or items within a particular category or geographical area.

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