2025-11-04

Verification holds, add-on tests, and why the queue looks frozen

Release is not the same as analyzer completion. Senior verification, delta checks, and hemolysis flags park results. Add-on requests from the ward reopen a specimen that looked finished.

Operations views that only show analyzer queues miss this parking lot. A TAT pack should have a column for time-in-verification, even if the number embarrasses the day shift.

We ask laboratories to tag add-ons so they do not poison the routine chemistry table. Mixing them produces a fake crisis every Thursday when clinics send extra thyroid requests onto yesterday’s tubes.