How would you contain and reconcile a wrong-patient study already sent to another hospital?

Instruction: Build the correction pathway for both potentially affected patients, distinguishing immediate clinical warnings, authoritative record repair, report correction, and confirmation at external destinations.

Context: In this fictional case, CT images displayed under patient A show surgical changes inconsistent with A’s history. The technologist suspects that patient B was scanned using A’s worklist entry. A preliminary report under A’s name has reached the clinical record, and images plus that report were sent to an outside hospital. Neither patient-to-image assignment has yet been confirmed.

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I would stop finalizing this study and warn both relevant clinical teams that the identity linkage is uncertain. The outside hospital needs an immediate warning that the report and images must not be relied on for A until resolved. We must find out whether anyone has already acted, without guessing that the images therefore belong to B...

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