Conditions for Assessing Primary Specifications and Setting QC Statuses
Primary specification assessment occurs whenever a sample scheme analyte receives a result, or a result is cleared, and sets the sample scheme analyte's Specification Status.
A sample scheme analyte's Specification Status is set to Not Tested upon creation or when the result is cleared.
Possible Status Outcomes of a Primary Specification Assessment
Primary specification assessment, resulting in a sample scheme analyte's Specification Status being set to something other than Not Required, occurs where:
- The sample has a Primary Analytical Type of Unknown, that is, for client, client standard and client blank samples.
- The sample links to one of more sample specifications, which in turn, link to a Specification Code,
- The sample's Primary Specification Code links to one of the sample's specifications.
- The primary specification contains limits for the scheme, version, analyte and analysis unit.
- The primary specification limit's are Critical for Validation.
In all other cases, specification assessment sets the sample scheme analyte's Specification Status to Not Required.
Composite QC Status
A sample scheme analyte's Limit Status, Standard Status, Precision Status and Composite QC Status is rolled into the sample scheme analyte's Composite QC Status. When the Composite QC Status is assessed as Warning or Failure, then the operator is notified by the workbook cell being highlighted yellow or red, respectively.
A sample scheme analyte that has a Composite QC Status of Failure cannot be validated to have the sample scheme analyte's Workflow Status set to Completed.
If a sample scheme analyte's Composite QC Status of Failure is subsequently ignored by the operator, the Composite QC Status is changed to Ignore Failure.
