ABSTRACT
In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) in concert with The Joint Commission identifies that “…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.”74 Approaches to solving the medical device-related patient identification issues in healthcare environments have principally evolved around patient wrist bracelets imprinted with barcodes or with radio frequency identification chips (RFID) for detection and identification using bar code scanners or RFID scanners.
