Human Factors in Healthcare

November 30, 2013

A patient was given an unnecessary knee operation. Two patients with the same name were set up with one set of medical notes and hence the same hospital number. They had different medical conditions that required hospital appointments in different departments, however, they both just happened to have knee pain at the same time. The wrong patient arrived and had the procedure intended for the other.

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