Expert Insight: Patient Identification Errors
May 10, 2016 | Health System Risk Management
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During routine reviews of events reported to the PSO database, ECRI Institute analysts discovered that patient identification issues were frequently represented. "Members have asked about it, too, in research requests; we've also gotten root-cause analyses," says Stephanie Uses, PharmD, MJ, JD, patient safety analyst and consultant, ECRI Institute.