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Wrist-Banding Process Improvement Recent
Wrist-Banding Process Improvement Recent
WristbandingProcessImprovement
UnitedStates
HospitalCommunity
Aim:Reductioninpatientidentificationrelatederrors
ProcessData
Date:08/07/2008
Step
Description
CheckinAtAdmissionsforRadiologyProcedure
Step
Description
PatientescortedorambulatorytoRadiologyDept.
Step
Description
PatientChecksinatRadiologyDesk
Step
Description
Techcallspatientbackforprocedure
Step
Description
Techverballyidentifiespatient
FailureMode
Causes
Effects
Techincorrectlyidentifies
patientordoesnotidentify
patientatall
Lackofknowledgeabout
identifiers
Noncompliance
Incorrecttesting
Step
Description
ProcedureDone
Step
Description
PatientLeaves
70 Wristbandingatacentral
checkinlocation.Patientto
verifyIDinformationis
correctbeforeleaving
admissionsarea.
CalculatedTotals
TotalRiskPriorityNumberfortheprocess
Occ: LikelihoodofOccurrence(110)
Det: LikelihoodofDetection(110)
NOTE: 1=VerylikelyitWILLbedetected
10=VerylikelyitWILLNOTbedetected
Sev: Severity(110)
RPN:RiskPriorityNumber(OccDetSev)
Annotation
None
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