Duplicate medical records occur periodically even when processes are carefully followed. After reading the article, Seeing Double: The Financial and Patient Safety Impacts of Duplicate Medical Records Links to an external site., please respond to the following points:

• Identify three examples of short-term impacts of duplicate medical records
• Address long-term impacts of duplicate medical records.
• Describe six key data for patient verification.
• Summarize a Joint Commission standard for patient identification.