Sorry Wayne but I agree with your inspector.
You need a unique identifier if at all possible as otherwise you could have the wrong David Jones or John Smith. Near Doncaster we have a GP practice with
two patients with identical names and DOB living on the same street so something else is needed to make the ID on your request unique.
I do agree with Jonathan that you cannot rely only on one information source. That is why, even though our ICE system uses scanned barcodes, our phlebotomists
confirm details which they should know with the patient. We have had examples where the wireless network drops out and patient details don’t change when the code is scanned as well as patients wearing the wrong ID band. All neatly recorded on DATIX and reported
to NRLS but that does not stop the errors whereas a robust labelling policy might if properly enforced.
Regards
Richard Stott
Doncaster & Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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Is that regardless of whether they are human-read and transcribed or machine-read eg by barcode? If so then it can't optimise the number or costs of of false-positives and false-negatives correctly.
There's a related but different point about multiple points of ID: if they come from the same source and a common error is selecting the wrong source then the number of points becomes irrelevant.
Jonathan
On 8 May 2015, at 16:03, Bradbury Wayne (RNL) North Cumbria University Hospitals <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
One of the findings at our recent UKAS inspection was a requirement for three pieces of ‘unique identifiers’ on all samples.
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