{"id":9973,"date":"2022-09-12T09:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocrsolutions.com\/?p=9973"},"modified":"2023-08-07T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:21:30","slug":"the-importance-of-proper-identification-in-medical-patient-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocrsolutions.com\/the-importance-of-proper-identification-in-medical-patient-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of proper identification in medical patient registration"},"content":{"rendered":"

37 patient safety events out of 436 sentinel events have occurred due to patient identification errors in the second quarter of 2019 including surgical or invasive procedure events involving wrong patient, wrong procedure, and wrong site.<\/em><\/p>\n

A 2016 study classified over 7,600 out of 10,915 events from January 2013 to August 2015 as \u201cwrong-patient events\u201d involving patient identification.<\/em><\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to \u201cPatient Identification Techniques Approaches, Implications, and Findings<\/a>,\u201d <\/strong>published in the National Library of Medicine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Healthcare errors aren\u2019t the only reason why medical patient registration is so important.<\/p>\n