Write an SOP for Recording, Reporting and Archiving of Results. This SOP must cover the following procedures:

• Recording of results
  Ensuring correct recording of all the data needed in all the registers, forms and reports necessary.
• Reviewing and authorizing results for release
  Including checking of correct transcription of results between registers, reports and work forms, and checking completeness of final report by authorized personnel (see activity earlier in phase 2).
• Normal procedure for reporting of results
  Results must always be reported in a final, authorized official report to the requester, not the patient, by authorized staff members. The results, reference intervals (also made in phase 2) and descriptions must be reported using accepted vocabulary/syntaxes and nomenclature.
• Immediate notification of the requester of results of urgent samples (also made in phase 2)
• Immediate notification of the requester in case results fall in critical intervals (this procedure was developed earlier in phase 2). Include the Immediate Notification Form developed earlier in phase 2 as appendix to the SOP.
  This procedure must ensure that if no contact was made with the requester, the laboratory keeps trying to get into contact until contact is made.
• Reporting via telephone or other electronic means
  Paying attention to proper verification that the correct clinician is called and that the clinician records the correct results for the correct patient.
• Reporting of results of samples of inadequate quality but that were still tested
  Notifying the clinician of this and explaining that the results should be interpreted with caution as they are less reliable.
• Alteration of reports
  When it is detected, after reporting of the result, that an examination might have been flawed (for example due to the use a bad quality reagent) the requester needs to be notified of the fact that the result is less reliable or may even be incorrect, so that he/she can undertake action with regard to correct diagnosis and treatment of the patient. The changes to the original report need to be clearly visible and need to be supplied with a date, time and name of the person who made the changes. In electronic reporting systems a track and trace function is needed, which records all modifications.
• Archiving of results
  Copies of official Result Reports are stored by the laboratory for a specific period of time. When reports are altered, the original report is also archived, together with the revised reports. When results were immediately notified to the requester, the completed Immediate Notification Form must be added to the official Result Report to enable later verification if needed.