Mission: AntibiotiX
Healthcare professionals practice antibiotic prescribing through patient cases and clinical decisions.
- Instructional design
- Narrative design
- Web development
Case study / Impact
HPCi Vaud and HPCI CHUV
Mission: AntibiotiX · Browser-based clinical escape-room serious game
Connect prescribing guidance with the decisions clinicians make.
Mission Antibiotix helps healthcare professionals examine antibiotic treatment decisions through realistic clinical cases.
The objective
HPCi Vaud and HPCI CHUV needed antimicrobial-resistance awareness to fit everyday clinical routines.
Swissnoso and the Swiss national strategy StAR supported the project, aligned with the World Health Organization's World Antimicrobial Awareness Week.
The experience
Prescribers work through adult and pediatric cases focused on antibiotic treatment duration, receiving immediate feedback on each decision.
The browser-based clinical escape room fits e-learning, internal competitions, and continuing-education sessions within existing hospital training routines.
185
prescribers who completed a mission
38 min
average session length
8+
Swiss hospitals and services involved
The results
Participants completed full missions and spent longer on the cases than in a usual training module.
Swiss hospitals and services, including CHUV, USZ, HOCH, and HFR Fribourg, adopted it for internal antimicrobial stewardship training.
One prescriber wrote in a voluntary post-play survey: “Really good and relevant cases, thanks for the organisers.”
Build the decision from the patient's case.
Gather context before choosing a treatment.
Patient rooms supply the information needed for the prescribing decision.
Professionals investigate the case before a clinical quiz tests their decision. A timed final pharmacy phase brings the case to a close.
- Format
- Browser-based clinical serious game with a timed final phase
- Delivery
- Healthcare teams investigate cases through timed clinical phases
- Audience
- Healthcare professionals making prescribing decisions
- Supported by
- Swissnoso and the Swiss national strategy StAR