Management in healthcare
  • 2021 № 1 Identification of patients as a safety in providing medical care (practical experience)

    Patient safety is one of the priorities in medical care. The leading place in it is occupied by “correct patient
    identification”. According to research by experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), “misidentification of a patient is the cause of many errors.” The purpose of this work is to assess the implementation of a patient identification system using bracelets in a multidisciplinary hospital. The main idea of the project is based on the use of personal identifiers, made in the form of a disposable white bracelet worn on the patient’s arm, as well as the use of color-coded bracelets (red, yellow, red-yellow), which allows identifying patients at risk of developing life-threatening conditions: high risk falling of the patient and the presence of an allergological history. The introduction of identification bracelets with patient data and a barcode on them increased the percentage of identification performance increased from 67% to 89%. After the introduction of the system of prevention of falls and color identification by bracelets, the number of falls of patients decreased by more than 4 times. Successful integration of the automatic identification system into the workflow of a multidisciplinary hospital significantly reduces the influence of the human factor on the number of medical errors and related preventable consequences for patient health.

    Authors: Potylitsyn A. V. [3] Beniova S. N. [2] Gorelova I. S. Kiku P. F. [1]

    Tags: medical information system7 patient identification1 plastic bracelets1 quality and safety of medical activities9

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