Reporting

How to start, write, and finalize a structured report—and how reporting status relates to the study lifecycle.

Reports in Xenrad are structured documents attached to a study. They're built in named sections, automatically saved as you work, and locked permanently when finalized.

How reporting works

A report has two states: draft (in progress) and completed (finalized, read-only).

A study goes through corresponding states: Reporting when a draft exists, Finalized when the report is completed.

Getting to a report

The study is marked Ready — front-desk staff or an operator confirmed the patient and study, then moved it to Ready. That's the signal that it's cleared for reporting.
A reporter opens the study — clicking into the study and starting to write (or just opening an existing draft) moves it into Reporting status.
The reporter works on the report — sections are filled in, reordered, and saved. The system autosaves section content, so you generally don't need to manually hit save.
Finalization — when the report is complete, the reporter explicitly finalizes it. The report becomes completed, the study becomes Finalized, and both are read-only from that point.

Writing the report

Reports are organized into sections—each section has a title and a content area (rich text). You can:

Edit the content of any section
Reorder or adjust sections, depending on what the UI exposes in your build

The autosave indicator in the UI (usually a "saving…" or "saved" label) tells you the content is safe. On slow or unstable networks, wait for "saved" before navigating away.

Finalization

Once you finalize:

The report is permanently completed—no further edits in normal user flows.
The study moves to Finalized—it's closed from a reporting perspective.
Any external system reading a DiagnosticReport resource via FHIR will see this report's content.

If your organization needs an addendum after finalization, follow your local policy. The default product behavior is that a finalized report is the terminal state for that reporting episode.

Permissions

Action	Who can do it
Start or edit a report	Users with the site's reporting permission
View a finalized report	Users with a view-reports permission (or a role that can always view completed work)
Finalize a report	Typically restricted to radiologists or senior roles

Exact permission names depend on your deployment's configuration.

How it connects to study status

Study status	Report state
New, Ready	No report yet
Reporting	Draft in progress
Finalized	Report completed

Study lifecycle — the full state machine.
Worklist — filtering by Reporting or Finalized to find specific studies.
FHIR DiagnosticReport — how external systems read completed reports.