Receive samples into the laboratory, record a container that cannot be tested, and keep analytical runs with their controls. What arrived, what is outstanding, and which runs are safe to report from.
It records what arrived and what the bench did with it. It does not publish results to anyone, it does not interpret a number, and it does not judge a control for you. There are no reference ranges, no abnormal flags, no delta checks and no control limits.
If a container with that number is already in the laboratory you are told, and nothing in the delivery is recorded. That stops one sample ending up with two sets of results, which is the mistake nobody can unpick afterwards.
If one container in a delivery cannot be received, none of them are. A half-recorded delivery would leave numbers claimed by nothing.
A container that cannot be tested is recorded with its reason, which frees the number for a fresh sample and tells whoever ordered the test. Quietly discarding it is how a patient waits three days for a test nobody is doing.
A patient test can only be completed on a run whose control passed, and that is checked when you save it rather than when the screen loaded. If a control fails while you are reporting, the report is refused.
Recording a failure is final for that run. A later pass does not undo it, because the numbers measured while the analyser was out of control were still measured while it was out of control. Open a new run instead.
A sample sent up from a ward can be received with what was asked for written in plain words. Samples that came from a booked order link back to it.