Decreasing Patient Misidentification Before Chemotherapy Administration
More accurate patient identification is a Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goal. To decrease the possibility of patient misidentification during chemotherapy administration, nurses on the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill instituted a bedside check and measured compliance.
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