{"id":69,"date":"2016-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defranciscolaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/patient-identification-mistakes-at-hospitals\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:29:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T22:29:54","slug":"patient-identification-mistakes-at-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/patient-identification-mistakes-at-hospitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient identification mistakes at hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instances of a mistaken identity can happen in a lot of different environments. In some contexts, such errors at worse will result in some embarrassment. In others though, such mistakes could be quite harmful. For example, at health care facilities, a misidentification of a patient could seriously endanger the patient\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, an ECRI Institute report looked into patient identity errors. These are mistakes in which one patient is confused with another. The report looked at over 7,600 such errors that were voluntarily reported by health care organizations. These errors came from over 180 organizations. They occurred between January 2013 and July 2015. ECRI officials postulate that these cases likely make up only a small portion of the patient identity mistakes that actually occurred.<\/p>\n<p>While most of the mistakes the report looked at did not result in a patient getting hurt, there were a couple that were fatal and some others that resulted in serious harms.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defranciscolaw.com\/blog\/patient-identification-mistakes-at-hospitals\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Patient identification mistakes at hospitals\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instances of a mistaken identity can happen in a lot of different environments. In some contexts, such errors at worse will result in some embarrassment. In others though, such mistakes could be quite harmful. For example, at health care facilities, a misidentification of a patient could seriously endanger the patient\u2019s health. 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