- Before
- Five documents waiting, two due this week, a new protocol this morning — each one read page by page against the library.
- Now
- Opens a document already marked up in four columns, sees where the reviewers agree and how often they have been right, and decides each finding.
One protocol, from submitted to back with its author
Sam Patel needs TMV-0195 — the test method validation protocol for the marker-band vision system VM-05 on the Corventa 7F delivery catheter, Plant 3 — Leiden — approved before the study runs. Here is what happens to it, screen by screen, in the working solution.
- 01Morning
Four reviewers, side by side, on the report she is finishing
Dana Okafor · Quality reviewer, validationDana's review panel is open on TMV-0193, Sam's 11-page TMV report for the tip-to-shaft bond pull force. Four columns hold the GxP, data integrity, test design and writing reviewers' redlines, each with page, section and a strike-and-insert edit. Above them: 96.8 % critical recall and 7.4 % false alarms against 36 past human reviews. Seven of the 11 findings were raised by two or more reviewers on their own.
“Advisory panel. Four reviewers read independently; Dana Okafor decides every finding.”
- 02Submitted this morning
An 8-page protocol, read on arrival
Sam Patel · Validation engineerSam's protocol arrives as TMV-0195_MarkerBand_VM-05_TMV-Protocol_Rev00.docx. Before the panel runs, the document is read: a test method validation protocol, template TPL-TMV-001 rev D — flagged “rev E is current” — product Corventa 7F delivery catheter against requirement R-4.6, instruments vision system VM-05 and gauge block GB-11, site Plant 3 — Leiden.
“The panel returns redlines in four columns and marks where reviewers agree. You decide what goes back to the author.”
- 03One click
Each reviewer reads all 8 pages on its own
The four reviewersThe GxP reviewer checks references against the library, the data integrity reviewer reads data sheets and records, the test design reviewer matches requirements to criteria, the writing reviewer reads for terms and numbering. Redlines land as they are found: the protocol is on a superseded template, the gauge block's calibration due date is blank, the ten parts were taken at random from lot 26-0412, “MSA” is used but not defined.
Below the columns, the reconciled findings fill in, with a dot under each reviewer that raised one.
- 04When the columns close
Two reviewers, separately, find the same missing criterion
Test design reviewer and GxP reviewerThe test design reviewer: “Nothing in Table 2 shows VM-05 can tell parts apart — no ndc ≥ 5 criterion”. The GxP reviewer: “Table 2 omits ndc ≥ 5, required by SOP-QA-0112 rev D §6.2”. The panel marks the agreement. Eleven redlines reconcile into 7 findings: 2 critical, 2 major, 3 minor.
“Two reviewers, working separately, flagged the same missing acceptance criterion.”
- 05The evidence
F-01, with the SOP passage that requires it
Dana Okafor · Quality reviewer, validationIn the markup, F-01 sits on page 4, §6.0 Table 2. Table 2 states total GRR ≤ 20 % of the tolerance and operator bias ≤ 5 %, and nothing for ndc. The evidence opens SOP-QA-0112 rev D, effective 15-Jun-2026, page 6 §6.2 — ndc “shall be ≥ 5 and shall be reported” — and TPL-TMV-001 rev E, which asks for each criterion in the table before execution.
“With a ±0.3 mm tolerance, ndc is the statistic most likely to fail, so it has to be fixed in the protocol before anyone measures.”
- 06One decision at a time
She accepts F-01; the template finding is next
Dana Okafor · Quality reviewer, validationDana accepts the finding and it goes into the redlined copy for Sam. F-02 opens: the protocol was prepared on TPL-TMV-001 rev D, superseded on 01-Jul-2026 by rev E, which added the acceptance-criteria table — which is why F-01 exists. The suggested edit, rev D to rev E, and which reviewers raised it are on the same screen.
“F-01 accepted — it will go to Sam Patel with the redlined copy.”
- 07Back to the author
Seven findings go back to Sam, before he measures
Dana Okafor · Quality reviewer, validationThe other findings are fixes Sam can make before execution: choose parts to span 9.7–10.3 mm from at least three lots, name the VM-05 export as the original record instead of copying readings by hand, measure from the distal tip as R-4.6 does, add GB-11's calibration due date. Dana returns the protocol with the redlined Word, the checklist and the traceability matrix, and a message: critical items first.
“Returning is your decision, recorded in the audit trail under your name. The panel's markup stays advisory.”
- 08On the report
A requirement no test covers
Test design reviewerBack on TMV-0193, the traceability matrix maps 8 requirements from the product requirements, the test method and SOP-QA-0112 rev D: 6 traced to a test and a result, 1 partly traced, 1 untraced. R-4.2.3 — pull force ≥ 15.0 N after 2 h hydration at 37 °C — has no test. Q-6.2, ndc ≥ 5 and reported, has a criterion but no result.
The test design reviewer reads the matrix both ways: every requirement to a test, every test back to a requirement.
- 09Every night
Each reviewer scored against your own past reviews
Omar Haddad · Quality manager, panel ownerThe accuracy scorer re-runs the panel on 36 past reviews your quality reviewers signed off — 412 findings raised by hand. GxP reviewer 97.1 % recall, data integrity 95.4 %, test design 96.0 %, writing 92.3 %. The panel missed 2 of 63 criticals, and both are named with what changed. The panel's critical recall has risen from 91.2 % in April to 96.8 % in September.
A new panel version ships only if critical recall stays at 95 % or better and false alarms under 10 %.
- 10When a revision becomes effective
Citations checked against the revision in force on the test date
Maya Chen · Document controlThe library holds 4,812 controlled documents and 11,406 revisions, each with its effective date. When SOP-MET-0031 rev E became effective, the revision watch had the GxP reviewer re-check the 4 open reviews still citing rev D — DV-0418, TMV-0190, DV-0421 and OQ-0281.
The GxP reviewer judges a revision by the first test date, never by today's date.