Types & Importance of Patient Identification Band

23 Feb 2021
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Patient Wristband with colour code safety & alert sticker plays major role from patient admission to discharge. It’s importance never been significant like today.

Patient Identification has never been so important like today. The pandemic like coronavirus has brought more attention on the always combative issue of a patient identifier process.  In busy healthcare facilities, the patient ID process at registration can be difficult to manage and challenging, resulting in failure to correctly identify patients continues to result in medication errors, treatment errors, testing errors, wrong person procedure, and discharge of infants to the wrong families and so on. These errors directly jeopardies patient safety, are time-consuming to correct, and can negatively impact a hospital’s bottom line.

Considering patient identification dynamics & importance, National Accreditation Board for Hospital & Healthcare providers (NABH), Board of Quality Council of India, established & adhere to certain norm for patient identification in their guidelines manual for Hospitals NABH accreditation.
One can follow that here:
( NABH ACCREDITATION STANDARDS FOR HOSPITALS APRIL 2020 )  &
Patient Identification – WHO

There are several standardize the approaches to patient identification method at different level within a health-care system.  Among which Patient Identification Tags are most popular. It is used for patient safety purposes & transforming the healthcare industry. ID Band is non- verbal approach is primary responsibility to check the identity of patients and match the correct patients with the correct care. Ideal Hospital Wristbands are made-up of good quality raw material, light weight, skin friendly, soft and easy to handle. These Patient ID Bands are manufactured from high grade plastic, which is obtained from reliable vendors. The Identification bands are made from smooth, soft non- toxic vinyl which is comfortable and safe for sensitive skin. All our bands are meet medical safety and are Latex and Phthalate free. These products are widely used in hospitals for minimize medical errors. Color coding of wristbands facilitates rapid visual recognition of specific issues and can be modified as per the requirement of the organization.

There are many types of patients id tags designed as per different medical need. The variety includes Medical Wrist Bands, Barcode Wristband, Patient Armbands, and several more. The multi types of bands are used to segregate patients of different departments undergoing treatments for a specific disease like Day Care Adult Tags, Mass Casualty Tags, Triage Tags are used by medical, Emergency Medical Alert Wristband, Alert Tags, Neonatal Patient Identification, Mother and Baby Medical ID Tags, Fall Risk Medical Tags, Access Control Tags.

This help the doctors and nursing staff to figure out a general set of treatments or mandatory pathological investigations or drug doses to patients suffering from same problems.

Few ID Tags Colour Code The table below explains the type of risk each color indicates.

  • Red For Allergy
  • Yellow For Falls
  • Purple For DNR
  • Pink For Restricted Extremity
  • Green For Latex Allergy

So select your desire Patient identification tags with MJM Prints. MJM Prints specializes in preparing various types of Wristbands, patient identification bands, Baby id band, Barcode Patient id band, Barcode wristband, infant wrist band etc. also for inbound and outbound staff and for patient’s relatives. Some ID bands we see are taped with sticker paper, some are the button press We practice synthetic, PP PVC material and tamper-proof with the lock at the ends to have a snap closure and which weight light. We take extreme care of keeping the patient in mind while designing the product.

MJM Prints is a well-equipped manufacturing firm which helps prepare the hole in the patient ID Band in such a detailed way that it can be adjusted to wrist size. As the patient identification band should be not only skin-friendly but also be tamper-proof, non-tear-able and flexible.

 

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