What Works: Effective Practices for Office-based CareComponents of the Medical Record
Patient Demographics

Recommendation: 1. Each page in record has patient name/identifier.

Source: CRICO/RMF Office Practice Handbook


 Effective Practice
Patient labels with patient information including the date, name, DOB, phone number and physician the patient is seeing
Benefits:
  • Pertinent information is easy to access
  • Used across the organization
In practice at: CHA (all sites)


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