Across Europe emergency physicians are still using paper-based emergency report forms to document medical procedure at accident
scenes. The forms are quite similar, but they differ in certain parameters or attributes. There are ongoing endeavours to
combine the paper-based protocols and then transfer this new protocol standard into a software-based Emergency Patient Care
Report Form (EPCRF). However during the transformation from a paper-based to an electronic solution, many problems occur.
To keep the users’ acceptance of the emergency medical services personnel, it is crucial that electronic EPCRF supports the
central process efficiently. Therefore key elements within the emergency report form are the anatomical diagrams and the chronological
sequence diagrams. These diagrams allow the emergency physician to track and record patient’s parameters in a very fast and
understandable and user friendly way.
Keywords Emergency patient report forms - chronological sequence diagram - emergency - patient record