TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Simple workflow changes enable effective patient identity matching in poison control
JO  - Applied clinical informatics
A1  - Cummins, Mollie R.
A1  - Ranade-Kharkar, Pallavi
A1  - Johansen, Cody
A1  - Bennett, Heather
A1  - Gabriel, Shelley
A1  - Crouch, Barbara Insley
A1  - Del Fiol, Guilherme
A1  - Hoffman, Matt
SP  - 553
EP  - 557
VL  - 9
IS  - 3
N2  - BACKGROUND:  U.S. poison control centers pose a special case for patient identity matching because they collect only minimal patient identifying information. <br><br>METHODS:  In early 2017, the Utah Poison Control Center (Utah PCC) initiated participation in regional health information exchange by sending Health Level Seven Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) documents to the Utah Health Information Network and Intermountain Healthcare. To increase the documentation of patient identifiers by the Utah PCC, we (1) adapted documentation practices to enable more complete and consistent documentation, and (2) implemented staff training to improve collection of identifiers. <br><br>RESULTS:  Compared with the same time period in 2016, the Utah PCC showed an increase of 27% (<i>p</i> < 0.001) in collection of birth date for cases referred to a health care facility, while improvements in the collection of other identifiers ranged from 0 to 8%. Automated patient identity matching was successful for 77% (100 of 130) of the C-CDAs. <br><br>CONCLUSION:  Historical processes and procedures for matching patient identities require adaptation or added functionality to adequately support the PCC use case.<br><br>Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1869-0327
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1667000
ID  - ref1
ER  -