Medical Identity Theft in the Emergency Department: Awareness is Crucial

Medical Identity theft in the emergency department (ED) can harm numerous individuals, and many frontline healthcare providers are unaware of this growing concern. The two cases described began as typical ED encounters until red flags were discovered upon validating the patient’s identity. Educating...

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Autor principal: Mancini, Michelino
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014
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Ethical and Legal Issues
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251251/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25493150
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.8.22438
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description Medical Identity theft in the emergency department (ED) can harm numerous individuals, and many frontline healthcare providers are unaware of this growing concern. The two cases described began as typical ED encounters until red flags were discovered upon validating the patient’s identity. Educating all healthcare personnel within and outside the ED regarding the subtle signs of medical identity theft and implementing institutional policies to identify these criminals will discourage further fraudulent behavior.
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spelling pubmed-42512512014-12-09 Medical Identity Theft in the Emergency Department: Awareness is Crucial Mancini, Michelino West J Emerg Med Ethical and Legal Issues Medical Identity theft in the emergency department (ED) can harm numerous individuals, and many frontline healthcare providers are unaware of this growing concern. The two cases described began as typical ED encounters until red flags were discovered upon validating the patient’s identity. Educating all healthcare personnel within and outside the ED regarding the subtle signs of medical identity theft and implementing institutional policies to identify these criminals will discourage further fraudulent behavior. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2014-11 2014-09-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4251251/ /pubmed/25493150 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2014.8.22438 Text en Copyright © 2014 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.
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