Patient bracelet

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A patient wristband is a means of error-free and secure identification of people in need of care during an inpatient stay, for example in an acute hospital or in a nursing home and is therefore part of quality management . At the hospital, the patient can wear the bracelet from the date of recording, consequently, the risk of, for example, of mixing up to operienden minimizing patient.

State of the art

Patient wristbands are state of the art, but are not state of the art in the majority of hospitals, for example in Germany. If not all patients are personally known to all employees, this harbors a considerable risk. In doing so, the operator neglects an important duty of safe patient care according to §137 SGB V and SGB X.

Optical identification

The bracelet consists of at least one plastic strip wrapped around the wrist, which has at least one number and, if necessary, further information about the wearer. These can be in the form of printed plain text and barcodes or digitized in some other way . In the simplest case, the data record only consists of the name, date of birth and case number of the patient, corresponding to the printing of the adhesive labels usually used on patient files and other data sheets. It can also contain a photo of the patient.

Electronic license plates

Particularly extensive opportunities for quick information access provide patient wristbands with readable by radio RFID - chips that allow an authorized readers a complete overview of findings, treatment instructions and other patient data in the per database access electronic patient records to obtain. In addition, automatic monitoring systems can give an alarm if a patient is to be given a treatment that has not been specified, leaves the designated area without authorization, or receives the wrong medication. Since these functions always contain the possibility of affecting the patient's personal rights ( informational self-determination ), electronic patient wristbands with RFID are subject to data protection regulations.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Salfeld, Steffen Hehner, Reinhard Wichels: Modern hospital management: Concepts and solutions . Springer, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-87398-3 , pp. 117 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b c Konrad Messmer, Joachim Jähne, Peter Neuhaus: What's new in surgery? Annual volume 2011 . Hüthig Jehle Rehm publishing group, Landsberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-609-76987-5 , p. 468 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
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  5. ↑ Patrick Opaterny: RFID in hospitals: how does the use of RFID change everyday hospital life? Diplomica Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8366-9187-1 , p. 17 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. ↑ Falk Zwicker: Ubiquitous Computing in Hospitals: A Case Study-Based Consideration of Business Potential . Gabler, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8349-8350-3 , pp. 169 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ↑ Thomas Bruggmann, Thomas Feil, Jens Ferner, Heike Klebs, Oliver Schonschek, Renate Kropp: Lexicon for IT Law 2013/2014 . Jehle, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7825-0543-7 .