Pregnancy Test Health Article

Health care team roles

If serum is used, a phlebotomist or nurse collects the blood specimen. A laboratory scientist, nurse, physician assistant, or physician can perform the pregnancy test. The result should be reported to the physician who orders the test. Quantitative hCG tests are ordered and interpret ed by a physician and performed by a clinical laboratory scientist, CLS(NCA)/medical technologist, MT(ASCP) or clinical laboratory technician CLT(NCA)/medical lab oratory technician MLT(ASCP).

BOOKS

Chernecky, Cynthia C, and Barbara J. Berger. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures. 3rd ed. Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders Company, 2001.

Kee, Joyce LeFever. Handbook of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.

PERIODICALS

Bastian, L.A., et al. "Is This Patient Pregnant?" Journal of the American Medical Association 278 no. 7: 586-591.

Peredy, T.R., and R.D. Powers. "Bedside Diagnostic Testing of Body Fluids." American Journal of Emergency Medicine 15 no. 4: 404-405.

Victoria DeMoranville