Patient NameNumber Form

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the next time you check into a hospital don't be surprised to hear the same question time and time again we want to make sure that for every service we provide every therapy every surgery every medication that we are absolutely identifying the patient as the right patient it's critical because medication errors surgical errors can occur if a patient is misidentified as part of the it takes to Patient Safety Initiative everyone who comes in contact with the patient will ask for two personal identifiers in this day a fast face medicine it's designed to avoid medical mix-up its patient identification problems have been an issue now we've always had a to patient identifier policy but now we are raising it to a higher level it's not too uncommon for patients to have the same or similar names so it's important to cross-check every step of the way we can have two people with the same name in the facility chances are reasonable that that could happen however same name and same date of birth we