Tase Terezinha Hideco, Quadrado Ellen Regina Sevilla, Tronchin Daisy Maria Rizatto
Universidade de São Paulo, School of Medicine, Clinical Hospital. São Paulo, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo, School of Nursing. São Paulo, Brazil.
Rev Bras Enferm. 2018 Jan-Feb;71(1):120-125. doi: 10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0134.
To determine the frequency of similar names and hospital records of women in a public teaching maternity hospital and the risk of misidentification resulting from the similarity in spelling and pronunciation of the names and in records.
Quantitative, documental and case study of 5,975 admissions that occurred between 2011 and 2014. The data name, admission and discharge date, date of birth, hospital record and bed number were collected from an electronic information system. Analysis encompassed descriptive statistics and design of an algorithm for comparison of text and sound.
Examination of the names revealed that 86% of the misidentification cases resulted from identical surnames and 96.5% from a sound similarity in the first names. There were patients with identical first and last names at least one day a week.
The risk of misidentification of patients is a reality, which stresses the importance of checking and pronouncing the complete names correctly.
确定一家公立教学妇产医院中女性相似姓名及病历情况，以及因姓名拼写、发音和病历相似导致身份误认的风险。
对2011年至2014年间发生的5975例入院病例进行定量、文献和案例研究。从电子信息系统收集姓名、入院和出院日期、出生日期、医院病历及床位号等数据。分析包括描述性统计以及文本和语音比较算法的设计。
对姓名的检查发现，86%的身份误认病例是由相同姓氏导致的，96.5%是由名字发音相似导致的。每周至少有一天会出现名字和姓氏都相同的患者。
患者身份误认的风险是现实存在的，这凸显了正确核对和读出完整姓名的重要性。
