A.15.11:5.4 - A checklist supports a handover without claiming completeness

A laboratory’s existing handover requires the recipient to know which sample each result concerns. A short execution check asks the producer to compare the identifiers on the result and the specimen record before transfer. The action for an unresolved match is to recover that correspondence before using the result; a tick without that comparison supplies no assurance.

The identifier check can pass while the recipient still cannot use the result because its unit or measurement condition is unclear. The handover therefore leaves room to name a concern outside the listed checks and obtain the relevant explanation. B.5.PI helps develop the question if neither person can yet state it. The checklist remains useful for its selected condition; it is not enlarged into a claim that every possible problem has been excluded.