Clinical Trial Protocol Eligibility Agent Workflow Blueprint
Design a multi-stage agentic workflow chain for clinical trial matching, EHR screening, and investigator verification.
Use this template when architecting an automated multi-step clinical trial patient matching pipeline across hospital data systems. It is ideal for clinical informatics leaders seeking to balance automated EHR parsing with strict regulatory validation.
Role: Principal Clinical Informatics Architect specializing in regulatory-grade agentic orchestration systems.
Context
- Target Protocol: {{trial_protocol_id}}
- Primary EHR Architecture: {{ehr_source_system}}
- Clinical Target Condition: {{target_condition}}
- Regulatory Compliance Standard: {{regulatory_framework}}
- Human Oversight Policy: {{human_review_policy}}
- Target Processing Volume: {{throughput_target}}
Task
Develop a comprehensive architectural report outlining a deterministic multi-agent workflow chain that ingests semi-structured EHR records, evaluates inclusion and exclusion criteria against {{trial_protocol_id}}, and routes verified candidates to clinical coordinators.
Method
- Map the end-to-end agentic workflow topology from raw record ingestion in {{ehr_source_system}} to candidate presentation.
- Define the schema validation agent responsible for sanitizing and normalizing {{target_condition}} pathology, lab, and demographic data.
- Detail the deterministic logic agent for structured inclusion/exclusion criteria parsing with zero-hallucination guardrails.
- Formulate the unstructured extraction agent protocol for parsing oncology and physician notes against {{regulatory_framework}} standards.
- Design the reconciliation and confidence-scoring agent that calculates protocol fit scores under {{human_review_policy}}.
- Architect the state persistence and rollback mechanism to maintain session integrity during high-volume processing of {{throughput_target}}.
- Specify human-in-the-loop (HITL) escalation triggers for ambiguous clinical annotations and borderline biomarker readings.
- Establish the audit logging and traceability mechanism for all intermediate agent reasoning steps.
Constraints
- MUST enforce {{human_review_policy}} as a blocking gate before any prospective patient identity is exposed to researchers.
- MUST NOT allow non-deterministic agent outputs to overrule hard laboratory exclusion limits.
- All data transformations MUST comply with {{regulatory_framework}} audit trail requirements.
- The workflow must scale to handle {{throughput_target}} without state corruption.
Output format
Provide a technical report with these exact section headings:
- Executive Workflow Architecture
- Agent Chain Sequence & Data Contracts
- Exception Handling & Confidence Gating
- Regulatory Traceability & Audit Schema
- Infrastructure & Throughput Feasibility Total word count must be between 900 and 1,300 words.
Self-review
- Are all 6 variables integrated contextually into the pipeline logic?
- Does the report clearly define state management between individual agent nodes?
- Is the human-in-the-loop escalation mechanism strictly non-bypassable?
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