Guarantee of clinical safety in the receipt, reception and patients' classification

The inadequate identification of the patients is animportant reason of the problems and complicationsassociated with mistakes in the sanitary assistance. Theproblems of identification associate often to complicationsproduced by mistakes in the administration of medicines,transfusions, tests you diagnose, etc.There exists statistical information that indicate us thata correct identification of the patient carries to a notabledecrease of the mistakes in the sanitary practice.Reasons of weight exist, therefore, to assume that thesuitable identification of the patients in the sanitary centers,is a challenge that must take up office and overcome ofthe as satisfactory as possible form.In the Clinical Unit of Urgencies of the SanitaryArea North of Malaga, one proposed an analysis on theprotocol of Receipt, Reception and patients'Classification, with the aim(lens) to value the safety degreethat was offered them to the patients, for it, I realize arandom sampling without replacement, between thenursing professional′s who fulfil the triaje in the unit.Between the results we can emphasize that thesecurity of the patient, this guaranteed by a sanitarycorrect practice, that a high percentage of theprofessionals realize them work according to the protocolof the unit and that they are satisfied the majority by thecurrent system. In spite of it, there exist technicaldifficulties that they need of our attention to avoidmistakes that could concern the security of the patients.Since conclusion we can say, that there is necessaryan important labor of sanitary education to the patients inorder that they respect the procedure of identification, aswell as inform the sanitary professionals of the need torealize written records of our activity (identification ofallergies). Equally, our unit analyzes the possibility ofstudying a possible alternative to the sticker withinformation of filiation for a design type bracelet, with theaim that the patients do not withdraw them from him.