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Entering a result and authorising it are two different acts, held by two different permissions, and often by two different people. A technician can run the sample and type the reading. Moving that test into Completed is the clinical sign-out — the point at which the result becomes reportable — and only someone who may verify can do it.

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Who may do what

A lab can require that a named technician’s work is checked. The setting asks Do {name}‘s results need verifying before release? — meaning that person may run the sample and enter the reading, but a qualified verifier has to authorise the result before it can be reported, and is the only one who may change it afterwards. Verifiers can be lab scientists, doctors, radiologists or the owner. See Permissions.

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Enter the readings

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Start the test

Find the request and select Start Test. The toast reads Test marked as in progress, and the status moves from Pending to In Progress so the rest of the bench can see it is being worked.
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Open the result form

Select Enter Results. Each analyte on the test appears as its own field, typed from your catalogue — a number with its unit, or a picker showing Select value for a list like Positive / Negative / Indeterminate.
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Enter every parameter

Work down the list. The form shows how many are done as {n} / {n} parameters filled, and marks the analytes that carry critical limits with a Critical badge.
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Save

Save the form. The toast reads Lab results saved successfully. The test stays In Progress — saving a reading is not signing it out.

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Verify and complete

Moving the test into Completed is the verification step. Read every value against its reference range before you do it, and give critical values the extra look their badge is asking for: anything outside the critical low or high limits you set on the catalogue test raises a Critical flag that overrides the status badge and is counted on the Lab Station as Critical Results (“Requires immediate attention”).
Completing a test is the clinical sign-out. Once it is Completed the result is reportable and can reach a clinician who will treat from it. Verify each value first, and act on a critical result by phone rather than waiting for someone to open a report.
To change a value after completion, use Edit Results — that needs the “amend a verified result” grant, and the change is recorded.

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What completing also does

Completing a test draws down the reagents attached to it in your catalogue, so your stock reflects the run without anyone counting bottles. The drawdown rides alongside the status change and can occasionally fall behind, so treat your reagent counts as very good rather than perfect, and spot-check with a stock count. See Reagents and consumables.

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If your site is a collection centre

Result entry is disabled at a collection centre. Attempting it returns This site is a collection center — results are entered at your full laboratory, and bench screens carry a banner saying the same. Register and dispatch the specimen instead; the full lab enters and verifies.

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Check it worked

  • The test shows Completed on the Test Requests table, and any critical analyte shows a Critical badge.
  • Lab Station › Analytics moves Pending Tests down and Completed Tests up, with its “{n}% completion rate” caption.
  • A report can now be produced from the test — see Produce and release a report.

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If something goes wrong

You hold “enter results at the bench” but not “verify and authorise results”. Hand it to a verifier. This is usually deliberate supervision, not a misconfiguration.
Either you are not a lab scientist — the request sheet then opens read-only with Only lab scientists can conduct or update lab tests — or the test is already Completed, where the action becomes Edit Results.
Those come from the catalogue, not the result form. Fix them on the test’s Parameters tab and every future run inherits the correction — see Add your tests and panels.
Check the test has reagents attached in the catalogue. If it does, run a stock count to reconcile — see Reagents and consumables.
Tell a verifier immediately. Amending a completed result needs the amend grant, and both the original entry and the correction stay in the record — see Audit log.