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Patient Identifiers

Patient Identifiers. Quality Improvement Plan Project. Alan Gutberlet , Joaquin Hall, Vanja Jonjic , Joseph Liska and Melanie Williams. Description of the Problem. Monitoring patient identifiers is one of The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) Improve patient safety

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Patient Identifiers

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  1. Patient Identifiers Quality Improvement Plan Project Alan Gutberlet, Joaquin Hall, VanjaJonjic, Joseph Liska and Melanie Williams

  2. Description of the Problem • Monitoring patient identifiers is one of The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) • Improve patient safety • Requires two unique patient specific identifiers • Ensure the patient is the person who is to be treated • Handful of incidents of incorrect patient identification (no harm done) • Wrong patient received CT scan • Food delivered to wrong patient – delayed procedure • Survey delivered to wrong patient

  3. Significance of the Problem • Reduce Errors • Medication administration errors • Wrong patient/wrong surgery • Wrong site surgeries • Wrong test/wrong patient • Blood transfusion errors • Wrong nutrition • Improve patient safety

  4. Literature Support & Analysis • Several methodologies available for implementation • Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) • Focus-Analyze-Develop-Execute-Evaluate (FADE) • Six Sigma • Improved data collection and monitoring ensures accountability and correctly identifies sources of errors • Policies should be simplified to prevent information overload

  5. Literature Support & Analysis II • Patient wristbands not enough by themselves • Patient safety team provided awareness, training, and increased monitoring • Technology can help, but still a human error and accountability problem • Continual monitoring of reliable indicators required

  6. Proposed Solutions - Implementation • Implementation is key • Leaders must battle resistance to change • Provide incentives for change • Leaders send strong signal of support of change • Policies • Simplify • Train • Monitor/Evaluate • Invest in Information Technology & monitoring • Create evaluation system for identification errors and ensure accountability • Data collected helps guide changes

  7. Proposed Solutions - Maintain • Change culture • Create a learning organization • Reduce social loafing – everyone is responsible for patient identification • Isolate negative outcomes, and reinforce positive outcomes • Continual monitoring • Continually evaluate monitoring to ensure reliability and accuracy of data • Re-evaluate goals

  8. Conclusion/Recommendations • Patient safety should be a part of the organization’s culture • Policies and procedures need to be simplified and created with the effected parties • Monitoring should be re-evaluated and updated to be more reliable • Training and auditing are required to ensure compliance • Implementation and securing buy in are critical to success

  9. Lessons Learned • Having a goal is not by itself enough to guarantee the goal is met • Requires leadership to implement • Requires employee’s buy in • Just because you have data does not mean it is reliable • Sample size needs to be large enough to be meaningful • Sampling locations need to be diverse enough to get an accurate sample • Data must measure what you intended to measure • Too many complicated policies can have a negative effect • Information overload – need to simplify • Must analyze all effects of policies

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