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Identify patients correctly

Throughout the health-care industry, the failure to correctly identify patients continues to result in medication errors,
transfusion errors, testing errors, wrong person procedures, and the discharge of infants to the wrong families. The major areas where patient misidentification can occur include drug
administration, phlebotomy, blood transfusions, and surgical interventions. PDF. (2018, May)

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Patient safety has become a major concern throughout the world. Research has demonstrated that 72% to 99% of clinical alarms are false. The high number of false alarms has led to alarm fatigue. Alarm fatigue is sensory overload when clinicians are exposed to an excessive number of alarms, which can result in desensitization to alarms and missed alarms. Patient deaths have been attributed to alarm fatigue (CNE Article: Alarm
Fatigue: A Patient Safety Concern, 2018)

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