{"id":2580,"date":"2018-04-20T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maptoolkit.wordpress.com\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2018-04-20T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:31:48","slug":"evidence-bites-patient-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/2018\/04\/20\/evidence-bites-patient-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Bites: Patient Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/patient-identification.pdf\">evidence summary<\/a> inspired by safety discussions held at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust&#8217;s\u00a0Safety Summit<\/p>\n<p>Why is correct patient identification important? The failure to correctly identify patients continues to result in medication errors, transfusion errors, testing errors, wrong person procedures, and the discharge of infants to the wrong families. The main areas where patient misidentification can occur include drug administration, phlebotomy, blood transfusions, and surgical interventions.<\/p>\n<p>Date of publication:\u00a0Sept 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0evidence summary inspired by safety discussions held at the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust&#8217;s\u00a0Safety Summit Why is correct&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/2018\/04\/20\/evidence-bites-patient-identification\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evidence-summaries","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/maptoolkit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}