In short
Surgery on the wrong patient is the performance of a procedure planned for someone else, without the identity being verified. It is not an incision on the wrong side of the same person. The patient asks for the wristband or identity record, the name on the consent, and the name in the operation note to be placed side by side. Similarity of surname does not take the place of an identity check. A poor outcome does not, by itself, show that the identities were mixed up. A damages figure and a statistic are not written in this text.
The protocol number, the identity document, and the name on the consent should point to the same person. The person taken into the operating theatre is a fourth line. If another name is written in the note, the procedure is not treated as having been performed on the patient in that file. A correction added later is asked about separately if it carries no trace. The petition does not merge two people with similar surnames into one patient.
Identity stands on three lines
The name on the wristband, the name on the consent, and the name in the operation note are separate lines. If the three conflict, one asks which record was written during the procedure. A copy of the file is requested through the patient file. A copy does not by itself complete the identity when there is no photograph of the wristband. If a document is missing, the missing line is not filled in as if it were there.
Two patients who share a surname are not the same person. The protocol number stands in front of the surname. If there is no number, similarity of name does not establish identity. If the nursing note did not write the person taken to the table, the note does not take the place of the wristband. A decision is not built before the three lines are seen. The minute must also show who was taken in.
Consent does not carry another person's permission
A form signed by one patient does not authorise a procedure on the person in the next room. The content of consent stands under informed consent. If there is no form at all, that is a separate door. If the form is for the right person and the table is wrong, the problem is the identity check, not the absence of consent. The signature on the consent does not by itself confirm the name on the wristband.
If the correct name is on the form and another name stands in the note, the two papers conflict. The conflict is not closed by merging them later into a single name. If a correction pen has left a trace, the trace is read. If there is no trace, the correction is not treated as having replaced the first line. The application separates which name stood at the moment of the procedure. The petition does not use the correct consent as a cover for the wrong table.
A mixed specimen and the wrong side are separate
Mixing up the right and left of the same person stands under wrong site. Mixing up a laboratory tube stands under the test specimen. Those two records are not copied onto the identity of the person taken to the operating table. If the specimen went to the wrong person, that event is the record of the blood tube. If the table was the wrong person, the line that is read is the wristband and the note.
The illness of the patient who was planned may still be in place. An incision made on the wrong person is an intervention on the body even if that person had no illness. Two harms are two files. If the files are folded into the same petition, it is lost which body was read. A decision is not built without separating the two identities. A statistic is not written in place of that separation.
Two people are two files
A damages figure is not added to this record. The figure does not take the place of the wristband. A statistic does not enlarge a conflict of lines either. A poor outcome does not, by itself, show that the identities were mixed up. If the lines match, a wrong-patient claim is not built. If the lines conflict, the figure is still not put in place of the conflict. A ratio or a count is not added to the petition.
The patient separates their own file from the file of the person who was mixed up. The separation cannot be made without a protocol number. If the number is the same in both files, that is asked about separately, and a number is not invented. An invoice does not always carry the person on whom the procedure was performed. Even if there is an invoice, the invoice does not take the place of the wristband. The request is built from whichever document the papers show.
Where identity is read from
The question of what happens if surgery is performed on the wrong patient is built from the wristband, the name on the consent, and the name in the note. The same surname does not count as identity. A damages figure and a statistic are not written. Wrong-site surgery and a mixed specimen are not put in place of this identity in the petition.
The office in Çankaya does not choose the authority the file will go to.
Conclusion
A wrong patient is read from the conflict of the identity lines. Wrong-site surgery and a mixed specimen are separate doors. A damages figure and a statistic are not written. Similarity of surname does not take the place of an identity check. The frame stands on the health law page. The basis is Law No. 1219.