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AAMA CMA Practice Question

A medical assistant is performing quality control testing on a hematology analyzer used for complete blood counts (CBC). According to CLIA regulations, what is an appropriate action to take if the control results are outside the established acceptable range?

  • Use a previous lot of control materials to perform patient assays and verify if the current results are accurate.

  • Continue to test patient specimens and note the deviation in the quality control log.

  • Adjust the acceptable range for quality control to encompass the deviated control results and maintain patient testing as per usual.

  • Troubleshoot the analyzer, repeat the quality control testing, and if still out of range, stop patient testing until the issue is resolved.

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