National Patient Safety Goals: Accurate Patient Identification
“Do-the-2. Verify two patient identifiers — every patient, every time.” This pithy advice from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is no silly call for extra typing. Medical errors have been considered as the third leading cause of death in the United States, and prominent among these are errors stemming from mistaken patient …
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