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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES |
Documentation Of Unidentified Patient’s Information
Azar KABIRZADEH, MD,a Benjamin Mohseni SARAVI, MD,b Aggdass KABIRZADEH, MD,c
aM.sc in Medical Records, A Member of University Scientific Board of Mazandaran Medical Sciences University, bB.sc in Medical Records, The Head of Informative Experts Council, cB.sc in Medical Records, IRAN
Many patients come to medical care centers every day. Hospitals act upon their responsibility and after recording patient’s identification information in admission and discharge summary forms admit, treat and discharge them. A group of these unidentified patients creates interference in mentioned processes that call for greater attention.
If patient’s identity would not be determined until time of discharge, it would cause problems for judicial and forensics systems. Therefore it seem, if there are directives and hospitals authorities apply them uniformly, it can assist further patient identification and also protects health care authorities and caretakers from legal claims and other consequences.
In Iran, there is no comprehensive directive on practice of admission, offering health care and discharge of unidentified patients and it is not determined that how health care centers should confront these patients and to take what measures to avoid future legal problems for both hospital and patient. In this article some aspects of this issue would be discussed.Keywords: Unidentified patient, identification system, information system, admitting departmentTurkiye Klinikleri J Med Ethics 2006, 14:136-139
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