Sebastian Major

"Critical incident reporting systems have been used in hospitals for years to improve the treatment quality and patient safety. They help to introduce changes which are necessary to avoid repetition of mistakes. In the field of preclinical and basic research this kind of systems was not present until we recently developed the first version of LabCIRS for the internal use in the department of Experimental Neurology at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Now with the financial support from Stiftung Charité, this web-based application for reporting and analysis of critical incidents in preclinical research environment was further developed into a multi-tenant system which can serve all research departments at the Charité. In LabCIRS everyone can report critical incidents anonymously. The reports are then analyzed confidentially and the results are presented to the members of the respective department.

The LabCIRS source code was published as an open source project at GitHub and is available to the research community also beyond the Charité: https://github.com/major-s/labcirs."