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Chinese naming conventions have been doing my head in lately. Not their fault, mind, but when we’re trying to track COVID results they’ll identify as, say, Dan Shan. Their ID will have their real name so Xu Shan. But sometimes it’ll have another name, so Xu Shan Dong. The lab will return it with the last name hyphenated, Shan-Dong, which causes problems with our ELR matching sheet. And then there’s language barriers. The person might have said “June” but the nurse hears “2” so DOB goes down as 2/4/1933 instead of 6/4/1933.
There’s so many points where thing can go awry. It’s a real headache when trying to return results within 24 hours to a nursing facility in the midst of an outbreak with 500 Chinese residents.
