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获取原文件references/gap-analysis-checklist.md
Research basis: 2026-10-01; current-source details are in references/source-ledger.md. This
checklist organizes evidence questions; it is not ISO or IEC text, an audit, an
assessment, a legal determination, or a compliance score.
Sections up to "Training, competence, and change control" apply to the device QMS lanes
(iso-13485, iso-14971). The laboratory sections near the end apply to iso-17025
and iso-15189. Use the sections your declared profile covers; do not report on a
domain you did not sample.
Status vocabulary
Use only:
not-assessed— no authorized decision was recorded;evidence-missing— applicable/expected evidence was not supplied;evidence-incomplete— evidence is draft, unapproved, unsourced, stale, or insufficiently linked;evidence-present-for-human-review— controlled evidence is available for substantive review; no adequacy claim;not-applicable-approved— an authorized person approved a documented rationale.
Never convert these states into a “compliance percentage.” Unequal, conditional, product-specific, and jurisdiction-specific evidence cannot be responsibly reduced to keyword counts.
Required fields for every review item
| Field | Required content |
|---|---|
| Item ID | Stable unique identifier |
| Scope | Products, sites, processes, suppliers, systems, and period |
| Owner | Accountable role |
| Status | One value from the vocabulary above |
| Evidence | Controlled IDs, revisions/dates, and locations |
| Source/version | Official source, exact edition/version/date, access/currency review |
| Rationale | Evidence-based conclusion or approved not-applicable rationale |
| Action | Gap/change/CAPA ID, owner, due date, and status |
| Approval | Named authorized approver, decision, date, and record ID |
Blank, placeholder, inaccessible, stale, or unapproved fields fail closed.
Workflow
- Freeze the review purpose and boundaries: internal audit, ISO certification preparation, laboratory accreditation assessment preparation, FDA inspection preparation, national regulatory inspection preparation, MDSAP, or EU conformity assessment. One purpose per review.
- Obtain authorized standards and current official regulatory sources.
- Record product/site/market/activity scope; route applicability decisions to authorized management, RA/QA, and legal roles.
- Build a controlled evidence manifest. Do not classify files from names alone.
- Sample implementation records across time, products, sites, shifts, suppliers, and risk as justified.
- Trace findings to risk, correction, CAPA, change, validation, training, and management review.
- Preserve limitations and unresolved decisions in the report.
- Obtain human approval. Do not issue a certification/readiness/compliance claim.
Scope, roles, and source basis
- Legal entities, sites, products/families, lifecycle activities, outsourced processes, and markets considered are explicit.
- Authorized management representative, RA/QA owner, process owners, document/ record owners, delegates, and escalation are documented.
- Independence and authority for audit, release, complaint/reportability, nonconformity disposition, CAPA closure, and change approval are defined.
- Each applicability or not-applicable decision cites current official source/version evidence and authorized approval.
- ISO, FDA, MDSAP, EU, and product-specific criteria are separately identified.
- External-source currency reviews and change-impact records are current.
Document and record control
- Every controlled document has ID, title, revision, owner, status, approval, effective date, change rationale, controlled location, and training impact.
- Point-of-use control prevents unintended use of draft or obsolete documents.
- External standards, regulations, guidance, specifications, and customer/ supplier documents have exact versions and currency-review ownership.
- Record creation, attribution, correction, integrity, security, audit trail, backup/recovery, retrieval, retention, legal hold, and disposition are controlled.
- Each retention period has an approved source/version and start-event rationale.
- Electronic systems and migrations preserve integrity and retrievability.
- Document changes link to affected risk, design, supplier, production, validation/software, postmarket, and training evidence.
Risk management
- Product and process risk scope, responsibilities, methods, criteria, reviews, and records are approved.
- Intended use, reasonably foreseeable use, hazards/signals, evaluations, controls, verification, residual-risk decisions, and production/postmarket feedback are traceable.
- Risk controls link to design inputs/outputs, verification/validation, production controls, labeling/information, and acceptance evidence.
- Supplier, software, process, usability, cybersecurity, clinical/performance, and postmarket risks are considered where applicable.
- Complaints, trends, vigilance, CAPA, and changes update risk evidence.
- ISO 14971 and any EN A11 source are identified by exact edition and role.
Design and development
- Authorized applicability decision covers the actual legal/lifecycle role.
- Plans define stages, responsibilities, interfaces, reviews, resources, verification, validation, transfer, and change controls.
- Inputs are approved, testable, traceable, and linked to risk and product/regulatory requirements.
- Outputs support production, suppliers, acceptance, service, labeling, and safe use as applicable.
- Reviews preserve participants, independence/competence, issues, decisions, and follow-up evidence.
- Verification and validation have approved protocols, objective criteria, representative configurations/samples, deviations, results, and approvals.
- Transfer and design changes include risk, validation, production, supplier, software, training, product-file, and postmarket impact evidence.
Supplier and outsourced-process controls
- Supplier/product/process criticality has an approved risk basis.
- Selection, qualification, approval, and scope are evidenced.
- Purchasing information defines requirements, acceptance, records, change notification, and sub-tier flow-down as applicable.
- Incoming/acceptance verification is risk-based and linked to supplier performance.
- Quality agreements assign responsibilities for critical/outsourced processes.
- Monitoring, re-evaluation, audits, nonconformity, SCAR/CAPA, effectiveness, escalation, and disqualification are controlled.
- Supplier changes route through product/process risk, validation, and change control before acceptance.
Production, service, validation, and software
- Infrastructure, maintenance, environment, contamination/cleanliness, personnel, instructions, and process parameters are controlled as applicable.
- Materials/components, equipment, software, methods, labeling/packaging, acceptance, release, preservation, distribution, installation, and service records are traceable.
- Processes whose output needs validation have approved protocols, acceptance criteria, qualified resources, deviations, results, revalidation triggers, and change approval.
- Monitoring/measurement equipment has identification, status, traceability, calibration/verification, maintenance, out-of-tolerance impact, and records.
- QMS and production software has intended use, risk, requirements, configuration, access/data-integrity controls, validation, release, incident, backup/recovery, supplier, and change/revalidation evidence.
- Product release is performed by authorized personnel against approved criteria.
Identification and traceability
- Approved scope defines the needed extent for each product and jurisdiction.
- Material/component, lot/serial/UDI, process, acceptance/release, distribution, installation, and service evidence is linked as applicable.
- Traceability supports complaint, investigation, correction/removal, vigilance, field action, and CAPA decisions.
- Record retention and retrieval preserve traceability for the approved period.
Complaints, feedback, postmarket, and vigilance
- Intake captures source, device, event, dates, reporter, and potential safety/ performance issue without losing original information.
- Evaluation and investigation have owners, rationale, evidence, product/risk impact, and approved conclusions.
- Authorized roles make jurisdiction-specific reportability/vigilance and field- action decisions within controlled workflows.
- Trends and postmarket plans/reports use defined data sources, methods, review intervals, thresholds, limitations, and actions.
- Feedback links to risk, design, suppliers, production, labeling, validation, CAPA, and management review.
- MDR/IVDR work considers current MDCG PMS/vigilance guidance as nonbinding guidance with exact document/revision/date.
Nonconformity and CAPA
- Nonconforming outputs are identified, controlled, evaluated, segregated where appropriate, dispositioned by authorized roles, and reverified after rework.
- Correction/containment, concession, post-delivery action, regulatory review, and affected-party communication are evidenced.
- CAPA intake defines source, factual problem, scope, risk/reportability review, and decision rationale.
- Investigation evidence supports the root cause or justified conclusion and systemic-extent review.
- Actions address the supported cause/risk and link to change, validation, training, supplier, product, and postmarket controls.
- Effectiveness plans define objective criteria, baseline, sample/window, timing, independent reviewer, evidence, and approval.
- Pending, insufficient, or ineffective evidence blocks closure.
Internal audit and management review
- Audit program is risk-based and covers applicable processes, sites, products, shifts/time, prior findings, and changes over a justified cycle.
- Audit plans define criteria, scope, sampling, methods, competence, and independence.
- Reports separate evidence, findings, corrections, CAPA decisions, owners, dates, and effectiveness follow-up.
- Management review inputs are controlled and complete for the approved agenda.
- Outputs record decisions, resources, changes, actions, owners, due dates, and follow-up.
- FDA inspection preparation accounts for current access to management, internal- audit, and supplier-audit records under QMSR.
Training, competence, and change control
- Roles have competence criteria and objective evidence of education, training, skills, experience, and authorization.
- Training is completed and effectiveness assessed before independent work or document effective use, as risk justifies.
- Changes identify source/version, reason, affected scope, risk, product, validation/software, supplier, production, document/record, training, postmarket, and regulatory/certification impacts.
- Changes have implementation plans, approvals, rollback/contingency where needed, verification, and closure evidence.
Current QMSR transition evidence
As of this research date, QMSR is effective and FDA uses Compliance Program 7382.850. Review:
- current eCFR and incorporated-edition source basis;
- FDA supplemental provisions and linked current regulations;
- disposition of obsolete QSR/QSIT references;
- pre-2026-02-02 QMS record evidence;
- inspection-accessible management, quality-audit, and supplier-audit records;
- complaint/servicing records and labeling/packaging controls;
- updated inspection-process training;
- supplier, software-validation, and change-control evidence; and
- removal of claims that ISO certification establishes FDA compliance or an inspection exemption.
Use scripts/check_qmsr_transition.py; do not create a legacy-QSR clause map as the
current control framework.
Laboratory scope, impartiality, and competence (iso-17025, iso-15189)
- Declared scope of laboratory activities is recorded per location, per method or examination, with the measurand or property and the range or sample type.
- Declared scope is reconciled against the current accredited scope schedule, and any work outside it is identified with its claim controls.
- Accreditation symbols, endorsement wording, and recognition-arrangement phrasing are current, authorized, and used only within scope.
- Impartiality risks are identified with controls, review evidence, and an owner — not a bare policy statement.
- Authorized signatories are listed with the scope each covers and the competence evidence behind the authorization.
- Personnel competence is evidenced per activity: training, authorization, ongoing monitoring, and reauthorization after change.
- Facilities and environmental conditions that affect results are monitored, with records and action on excursions.
- Equipment records cover calibration status, intermediate checks, out-of-service handling, and the effect of any failure on previously reported results.
Metrological traceability, uncertainty, and decision rules (iso-17025, iso-15189)
- Traceability is documented as a chain per measurement: stated reference, provider and its accreditation scope, certificate identity, uncertainty carried forward, interval justification, and intermediate checks.
- Where no reference system exists for a measurand, that fact and the alternative comparability approach are recorded and authorized.
- Measurement uncertainty is evaluated for the measurands that require it, with a stated basis, contributions, and controlled revision.
- Reported uncertainty and its relationship to the decision rule are consistent with the report wording.
- Where conformity is stated, the decision rule is documented, agreed where required, and applied consistently at the specification limit.
- The policy basis for traceability and decision rules is cited by current designation and issue, confirmed rather than assumed.
Methods, validity of results, and reporting (iso-17025, iso-15189)
- Each scope item is classified: standard method used as published, modified or out-of-scope standard method, non-standard method, or laboratory-developed method. An unmodified standard method still needs laboratory performance verification; record validation for the intended use where applicable.
- Verification or validation records show performance characteristics evaluated, acceptance criteria, data, and authorized approval to put into service.
- Methods are revisited after instrument, reagent, personnel, or issue changes.
- Proficiency-testing or external-quality-assessment enrolment covers the scope items it should, with a documented plan and frequency.
- Every questionable or unsatisfactory PT/EQA result has an investigation, an action, and effectiveness evidence. Treat an uninvestigated unsatisfactory result as a blocker.
- Where no scheme exists, the alternative comparison approach is recorded and authorized.
- Technical records are sufficient to reproduce the reported result, with identifiable personnel, dates, and revisions.
- Report and certificate content, amendment and retraction handling, and authorized signature are controlled.
- Nonconforming work has documented evaluation, action, customer notification where required, and recall or amendment of affected results.
Medical laboratory pre- and post-examination (iso-15189)
- Request content, patient identification, and primary sample identification controls are evidenced by records, including identification-error events and their investigations.
- Collection, transport, stability, acceptance, and rejection criteria are recorded, with rejection and transport-excursion records sampled.
- Result review and authorization before release is evidenced per examination.
- Biological reference intervals and clinical decision limits have a documented basis for the population served, not only a package-insert citation.
- Critical-result notification records exist, with recipient, time, read-back, and timeliness against the defined requirement.
- Interpretive comments are made only by authorized persons, per a controlled basis.
- Point-of-care testing under the laboratory's responsibility has governance, operator authorization, QC, connectivity, and reconciliation evidence.
- Laboratory information management covers data integrity, access control, change control, validation of the system and of interfaces, and downtime handling.
- Continuity and emergency arrangements have been exercised, with records — not a plan nobody has tested.
- CLIA, licensure, and payer evidence is kept in a separate register, with no implication that ISO 15189 accreditation satisfies any of them.
Regime handoff
Before final review, state which authorized party owns the next decision:
- ISO certification body for certification audit/certificate decisions;
- the accreditation body and its assessors for accreditation and scope decisions;
- CMS, the CMS-approved accreditation organization, or the state agency for CLIA certification, deemed status, and licensure decisions;
- FDA for inspection and enforcement decisions;
- MDSAP-recognized Auditing Organization and participating authorities for MDSAP;
- designated MDR/IVDR notified body and competent authorities for applicable EU conformity-assessment/regulatory decisions;
- authorized management, RA/QA, legal, and product specialists for organizational decisions.
Deterministic tooling
validate_scope_intake.py— accountable scope/applicability decisions (--standard)audit_document_records.py— document, record, retention, and source registercheck_capa.py— CAPA/effectiveness closure gatescheck_traceability.py— risk/design/production/postmarket links; device lanes only, and not metrological traceabilitycheck_qmsr_transition.py— current post-effective-date QMSR evidence; US device lanevalidate_evidence_manifest.py— bounded local readiness manifest (--standard)check_supplier_controls.py— risk-based supplier and external-provider evidencegap_analyzer.py— domain coverage without keyword or percentage scoring (--standard)
Pass --standard iso-13485|iso-14971|iso-17025|iso-15189 to the three profile-aware
checks so the domain vocabulary matches the standard under review. An unlisted value is
refused rather than defaulted.
All tools are local JSON/Markdown structural checks. Exit 0 means only that no structural finding was generated for the supplied data.