Department & care
Laboratory protocols and procedures
Reading protocol, report validation and distribution workflow, the team's typical week: write, version and distribute the department's rules.
The problem
An imaging laboratory or a unit runs on implicit rules: who reads what, how a report is validated and then distributed, how images are exported, what the typical week of residents and assistants looks like. When the team changes, these rules are lost.
Step-by-step method
- List the department’s procedures: reading and acquisition protocols, exam export, report validation and distribution, typical week, emergency pathways.
- Write each procedure from your notes and existing material: purpose, scope, steps, responsibilities, checkpoints. Claude proposes a structure and flags unclear steps.
- Rely on scientific society guidelines for technical protocols, with verified references.
- Version: version number, date, approval at a department meeting; the previous version is archived, never overwritten.
- The team’s typical week (residents, assistants) is built separately and checked against the department schedule, read-only.
- Distribute and review: an annual review reminder goes into the anticipation dashboard.
Deliverable
A binder of versioned procedures, approved by the team, and a typical week updated at each team change.
Safeguards
Institutional procedures follow the institution’s quality circuit. No patient data in the examples.
Starter prompt
Here are my notes on the current workflow for validating and distributing imaging reports. Write a procedure (purpose, steps, responsibilities, checkpoints), flag each ambiguous step and propose a version number.