White A W, Messler C
Department of Health Administration and Policy, Medical University of South Carolina, USA.
Top Health Inf Manage. 1997 May;17(4):32-9.
The article discusses the creation and use of universal patient identifiers to facilitate the linkage of patient records from all the components of the health care delivery system. The benefits and disadvantages of using a national health identifier that uses the Social Security number are discussed. A number of universal patient identifier proposals are presented to illustrate the complexity of the issue. The article concludes with a discussion of what health information managers can currently do in their own facilities to facilitate access to integrated information.
本文讨论了通用患者标识符的创建和使用，以促进医疗保健提供系统所有组成部分的患者记录的链接。讨论了使用社会保障号码作为国家健康标识符的利弊。提出了一些通用患者标识符提案，以说明该问题的复杂性。文章最后讨论了健康信息管理人员目前在其所在机构可以采取哪些措施来促进对综合信息的访问。
