04/01/2006

• Patient Identification 

  From case studies to guidelines to technological advances, EndoNurse takes at a look at patient identification initiatives in the 21st century. A study conducted in 2002 examined the case of a patient who was mistakenly taken for another patient’s invasive electrophysiology procedure.1 After reviewing the case and the results of the institution’s root-cause analysis, it was discovered that at ...