AI agent for clinical research coordinators
Eligibility Pre-Screen Chart Review Agent
A criterion-by-criterion eligibility status with the tests needed to resolve unknowns and a decision ready for PI review
What it does
Screening a patient against a long eligibility list is slow, and a missed criterion leads to a screen failure after tests were already done. This agent reviews the records the coordinator is permitted to see and goes through each inclusion and exclusion criterion. It marks each as met, not met or unknown, with the source line. For unknowns it lists the tests, results or history needed to resolve them. When new results arrive, it rereads the record and updates the status. A clear fail on any exclusion stops the review early. The principal investigator approves every eligibility decision. Edge case: a lab value is within range but dated 40 days ago, so the agent marks it unknown because the protocol needs a result within 28 days.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Potential participant is referred
- Read the permitted record and the protocol criteria
- Mark each criterion as met, not met or unknown with a source
- Is any exclusion criterion clearly met?If not: stop the review and report the failed criterion. Back to step 3.
- List the tests or history needed for each unknown
- Request the missing items from the coordinator
- Reread the record when new results arrive
- Are all unknowns resolved with evidence in the allowed window?If not: keep the open items and set a recheck date. Back to step 4.
- Draft the eligibility summary
- PI approves the eligibility decisionThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Eligibility file for the participant
How it decides
Each criterion is met only with dated evidence inside the protocol window. A missing or old value stays unknown.
- Mark a value unknown if older than the protocol window
- Stop early on a confirmed exclusion
- Treat a medication name match as unknown until dose is confirmed
- List the cheapest test first when several resolve an unknown
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Result age window (default 28 days)
- Criteria source version
- Who gets the unknown-items list
- Recheck frequency
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Eligibility decision
- Scheduling of screening tests
Hard limits
- Never decides eligibility
- Only reads records the coordinator is authorized to view
It stops when
- Done: all criteria resolved and decision reviewed
- Stop: record access is not permitted
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide