Failing to associate the right patient with the appropriate action, referred to as wrong-patient errors, is a prevalent occurrence with potentially fatal consequences, according to a report from the ...

Patient misidentification continues to pose a persistent safety risk throughout the NHS, yet it remains inadequately acknowledged and researched, a healthcare safety watchdog has warned. A new report ...

Medical facilities have little room for error when it comes to identifying patients. They must be identified with 100% accuracy to ensure healthcare teams provide the ...

Patient identification errors ranked second on the ECRI Institute's 2016 list of top 10 patient safety concerns. And a report published earlier this year in the Journal of AHIMA revealed that 57 ...

Healthcare industry groups have been chewing on the challenge of accurate patient matching for years, with the prospect of patient misidentification presenting questions around safety and security, ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Including photos of patients' faces with their X-ray images led to a fivefold decrease in patient-identification errors, according to a new study. Researchers asked 10 radiologists to look at 20 pairs ...