Assessment of the use of patient vital sign data for preventing misidentification and medical errors.

Jared Maul; Jeremy Straub

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Assessment of the use of patient vital sign data for preventing misidentification and medical errors.

January 25, 2023

Maul J, Straub J. Healthcare (Basel). 2022;10(12):2440.

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Patient misidentification can lead to serious medical errors and patient harm. This article provides an overview of how artificial intelligence (AI) frameworks can be combined with patient vital sign data to prevent patient misidentification. The authors suggest that this system could provide alerts indicating possible misidentification or it could be paired with other indicator systems as part of a multi-factor misidentification system.

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