A Team of Phlebotomists Is Working the Third Shift in a Laboratory

Multiple Choice

A team of phlebotomists is working the third shift in a laboratory. One of the responsibilities of the third-shift phlebotomists is to monitor the printers that print out routine test results that will be delivered by couriers, beginning during the day shift. Because of a high number of stat collections requested by the emergency department, no one was able to check on the printers, and they ran out of paper. This was not discovered until first shift was practically ready to begin. What kind of variable has this series of events introduced into the test system?

A) Examination
B) Postexamination
C) A quality control variable
D) Preexamination