Patient misidentification in the neonatal intensive care unit: quantification of risk.

James Gray; Gautham Suresh; Robert Ursprung; William H. Edwards; Julianne Nickerson; Pat H. Shiono; Paul Plsek; Donald A. Goldmann; Jeffrey Horbar

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Patient misidentification in the neonatal intensive care unit: quantification of risk.

January 18, 2006

Gray J, Suresh G, Ursprung R, et al. Pediatrics. 2006;117(1):e43-e47.

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This study demonstrated that more than half of the patients in a single neonatal intensive care unit are at risk for misidentification errors due to similarities in patient names or medical record numbers.

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