CIRS mobile – record critical incidents on location

Critical incidents happen in 2%‒8 % of hospitalisations. The number of deaths by preventable adverse events is greater than those of flu, AIDS and traffic accidents com-bined. To reduce those preventable adverse events and to increase the patient’s safety, it is important to not only react when a preventable adverse event happened but also to be aware of the near misses. One possible way to detect near misses is to introduce a Critical Incident Reporting System (CIRS). The goal of this project was to develop a CIRS for mobile devices. Although mobile devices are not suitable for text input, they could possibly close a gap in the recording of critical incidents due to the fact that you can take these mobile devices with you as easily as a notepad and record your CI’s where you want (e.g. in a cafeteria). Therefore, the us-ability was one of the key elements in this project. To reach this goal the authors created a clickable mock-up, which was used to test the functionality with future end-users. On the basis of the results of the mock-up and the us-ability tests, the authors developed a final prototype based on the web technology HTML5