Patient safety: Patient identification wristband errors

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 927-929

  Dhatt, Gurdeep S ^a   Damir, Hassan Abu ^a   Matarelli, Steven ^a   Sankaranarayanan, Krishnan ^a   James, David M ^a  

^a TAWAM HOSPITAL   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

errors; patient identification; patient safety; wristbands

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LETTER; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICATION ERROR; ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHLEBOTOMIST; PHLEBOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ERRORS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; PHLEBOTOMY; SAFETY; WRIST;

EID: 79954492574     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.129     Document Type: Letter

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