Using mobile information technology to build a database for anesthesia quality control and to provide clinical guidelines.

The paper describes a mobile information system to collect patient information for anaesthesia quality control. In this system we use handheld computers, to collect patient data at the bedside with a daily synchronization of the data of the anaesthesiologist's handheld with the anaesthesia database center, later used for quality control analysis. Further, we design mobile clinical guidelines to be used on the same handhelds.