Patient Order, Information, and Administrative Errors
Minor finding | Major finding |
Patient or study not entered correctly into electronic medical record (EMR) | Patient name misspelled |
Incorrect examination type or number selected | Wrong patient name printed on labels |
Patient date of birth missing | Patient identification number (ID) missing or incorrect |
Order incorrect but not reordered or reentered | Patient date of birth incorrect |
Order aborted but not cancelled in EMR | Study entered on wrong date |
Dual study but second order not generated | Multiple patients’ information in one record |
CT order not entered correctly in EMR | Consent form missing or incomplete |
Patient history form incomplete | Paperwork not scanned into PACS and not available for scanning |
Study forms or worksheets incomplete | Wrong patient ID number entered in glucose meter |
Paperwork not scanned into PACS but still available for scanning | Failure of on-call tech to notify on-call NM physician |