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Inpatient Facility Coding & Compliance Alert

Patient Safety:

Follow These Strategies from WHO to Bolster Your Patient

Published on Mon Jan 21, 2013

Remind employees it’s everyone’s job to keep track of identities. It’s every facility’s nightmare: learning that a patient under your care has been misidentified at some point during their care. Help ensure that your patients are properly identified by taking note of the systems WHO (World Health Organization) suggests every organization has in place. 1. Emphasize that health care workers [...]
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