Antibiotic-impregnated disks used to test whether particular bacteria are susceptible to specific antibiotic.

Limitation, suspension, or revocation of a CLIP certificate in response to condition level deficiencies.

The span of test result values over which the laboratory can establish or verify the accuracy of the instrument or test system measurement response.

Includes the actual steps in the test analysis.

Steps taken after the analystical phase of testing, to including test interpretation and reporting.

A substance or constituent for which the laboratory conducts testing.

A laboratory currently in compliance with applicable CLIA requirements, that has had a record of satisfactory PT performance for all testing events for at least one year for a specific test, analyte, subspecialty, or specialty and has been designated by an HHS approved PT program as a referee laboratory for analyzing PT specimens for the purpose of determ...

Either the mean of all participant responses after removal of outliers (those responses greater than 3 standard deviations from the original mean) or the mean established by definitive or reference methods acceptable for use in the National Reference System for the Clinical Laboratory by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; previously known as...

An individual authorized under military regulations to order tests or receive test results, or both.

A process of testing and adjusting an instrument or test system to establish a correlation between the measurement response and the concentration or amount of the substance that is being measured by the test procedure.

The assaying of materials of known concentration in the same manner as patient samples to substantiate the instrument or test system’s calibration throughout the reportable range for patient test results.

States the minimal conditions that all laboratories must meet to be certified to perform testing on human specimens.

A situation in which immediate corrective action is necessary because the laboratory’s noncompliance with one or more condition level requirements has already caused, is causing, or is likely to cause, at any time, serious injury or harm, or death, to individuals served by the laboratory or to the health or safety of DOD health care beneficiaries. T...

The range of test values expected for a designated population of individuals, e.g., 95 percent of individuals that are presumed to be healthy (or normal).

Tests or procedures for which PT is required by Public Law 100-578. The list and minimal performance in PT events is stated in section 9 of Enclosure 3 of DoDM 6440.02.