Improving the accuracy of patient identification in the medication-use process.

Philip J. Trapskin; Louise White; John A. Armitstead

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Improving the accuracy of patient identification in the medication-use process.

February 8, 2006

Trapskin PJ, White L, Armitstead JA. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63(3):218, 220-2.

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Investigators from a tertiary care academic medical center describe a failure mode and effects analysis they conducted to identify potential patient identification problems and discuss the six core improvement areas that the analysis revealed.

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