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Version control for humans: how clinics actually update a procedure

5 minutes. The field note, shown rather than read.

Chapters

  1. 0:00 Numbering the file is the easy part
  2. 0:10 Three things are true at the same time
  3. 0:30 Document control and change control
  4. 0:49 The gap between the two is full of copies
  5. 1:08 Distribute a link, never a file
  6. 1:23 It does not tell you that one person changed
  7. 1:32 Why the old version keeps winning
  8. 1:55 Silence gets filled
  9. 2:11 A drafting failure with a delay on it
  10. 2:25 How often should a procedure be reviewed?
  11. 2:53 A review that ends in no change
  12. 3:10 The change note
  13. 3:39 Say what changed inside the document
  14. 3:56 What you control is narrow and it is enough
  15. 4:12 A patient-facing consequence

The field note