ECRI PSO Deep Dive: Patient Identification

The risk of wrong-patient errors is ever-present for the multitude of patient encounters occurring daily in healthcare settings. Many patient identification mistakes are caught before care is provided, but others do reach the patient, sometimes with potentially fatal consequences. This report summarizes ECRI PSO's analysis of wrong-patient events.

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