Apps to Reduce the Impact That Adverse Events Among Health Professionals

Adverse events are also the cause of suffering in health professionals involved (second victims). This study has the aim of design and evaluates two applications for staff of hospital and primary care settings with the intention of improving their capacity to conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and to help them introducing patient safety certification (PSC). A single-blind randomized controlled trial shall conduct with a control and an experimental group (N=84) in both cases. The characteristics of both apps shall specify based on the suggestions of health professionals and shall design for Android and IOS (for iPhone or Ipad). The randomly subjects in the control group shall receive oral and written information and the experimental group used App for two months. Pre- and post- measures shall include: patient safety knowledge and culture and self-perceived capacity to enhance RCA or follow-up PSC. In the experimental group, data shall also collect on their previous experience with information and communication technologies, their rating of each App. The inter-group intervention effects shall calculate by univariate linear models and ANOVA, with the pre- to post-intervention differences as the dependent variables.