Objectives: To identify current patient identification techniques and approaches used
worldwide in today's healthcare environment. To identify challenges associated with …

Pediatricians render care in an increasingly complex environment, which results in multiple
opportunities to cause unintended harm. National awareness of patient safety risks has …

A byproduct of the transition to electronic health records (EHRs) is the associated
observational data that capture EHR users' granular interactions with the medical record …

Electronic health record audit logs capture a time-sequenced record of clinician activities
while using the system. Audit log data therefore facilitate unobtrusive measurement at scale …

Importance Use of secure messaging for clinician-to-clinician communication has increased
exponentially over the past decade, but its association with clinician work is poorly …

Objective To evaluate the evidence upon which standards for hospital accreditation by The
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (the Joint Commission) are …

Importance Recommendations in the United States suggest limiting the number of patient
records displayed in an electronic health record (EHR) to 1 at a time, although little evidence …

Objective: To determine the frequency of similar names and hospital records of women in a
public teaching maternity hospital and the risk of misidentification resulting from the similarity …

BACKGROUND: NICU patients have characteristics believed to increase their risk for wrong-
patient errors; however, little is known about the frequency of wrong-patient errors in the …

Importance Wrong-patient order entry (WPOE) errors have a high potential for harm; these
errors are particularly frequent wherever workflows are complex and multitasking and …