This text in Partial Laboratory Report

• In some cases, a laboratory might release a laboratory report which is either incomplete (not all results are available or marked as “final”) or unverified.
• This usually occurs when some of the results are known to be produced later, but others need to be communicated to report recipients due to specific organizational and/or process rules; or because of the urgency of some results. Note: the ‘delay’ in the results availability may be due to the nature of the test, or to organizational or technical reasons.

In such cases:

• the report status should be set to “preliminary” or “partial”.

is confusing some laboratory concepts and is also conflating two distinct statuses:

#1 unverified results are NOT NORMALLY reported outside the organization - so unless this is a laboratory report internal to a laboratory this status should not be used on observations in a reelased report - I believe you meant preliminary results instead.

#2 partial results are some, but not all results are available - this sceanrio is correclty described as:

• In some cases, a laboratory might release a laboratory report which is incomplete (not all results are available or marked as “final”).
• This usually occurs when some of the results are known to be produced later, but others need to be communicated to report recipients due to specific organizational and/or process rules; or because of the urgency of some results. Note: The ‘delay’ in the results availability may be due to the nature of the test, or to organizational or technical reasons.

In such cases:

• the report status should be set to “partial”.

#3 Preliminary reports:

• In some cases, a laboratory might release a laboratory report which has verified results that are known to change over time.
• This usually occurs for specifi methods that require a long performanceperiod, like cultures of slow growing organisms, but intermediate verified results need to be communicated to report recipients due to specific organizational and/or process rules (e.g. culture and susceptibility testing for mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB))

In such cases:

• The report status should be set to “preliminary”.