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The Wrong Patient (2002)
- joshgel 8y agoThis article is from 2002. Health systems are complex and mistakes happen. Its great that articles like this get published to ensure that we continue to learn from our mistakes and highlight the efforts we go to try to prevent them.
- HankB99 8y agoThis patient survived. I worked in a hospital about 40 years ago. A young man came in with a laceration and required inpatient treatment. He was allergic to aspirin so the nurse gave him ASA (acetylsalicylic acid, AKA Aspirin.) He died. I wonder if that kind of thing still happens. One effort to avoid this kind of problem is to use check lists. Book about that was published in 2009. (The Checklist Manifesto) https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0312430000 https://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/...
- morpheuskafka 8y agoIt sounds like they weren't using the medical record number for convience--what about simply adding a check digit or letter to names so that maybe people could be trained to say that if they insist on using names alone?