Positive patient identification is essential in all aspects of care ... are appropriately trained and competent Laboratories should have a zero-tolerance policy to samples that do not meet minimum ...

A UPI is a single medical identification ... decisions about a patient’s care using either incomplete or erroneous data runs the risk of unintentionally doing harm. Examples of where these ...

Examples included a patient who ... "We've seen that anyone on the patient's healthcare team can make an identification error, including physicians, nurses, lab technicians, pharmacists and ...

Because adoption of systems approaches to patient safety remains challenging, 10 we conclude with a discussion of barriers, policy implications ... care processes (for example, work system ...

“Without complete adherence to patient identification policies and procedures, patient safety could be at risk,” according to the report. Such failure can result in errors involving ...

Hospitals’ methods for gathering patient information remain largely imprecise, which can lead to costly, long-lasting ramifications on hospital finances downstream. Many hospitals largely rely ...

Health chiefs have apologised over a mix-up between two patients with the same name which led to the wrong person undergoing a medical procedure. The bronchoscopy, which involves a fibre-optic ...