Factors related to the implementation of patient identification in hospitals: A literature review

Introduction: Patient safety is the basic and main principle in providing health care. Patient safety in hospitals begins with patient identification. Errors at the patient identification stage will have an impact on health care errors at the next stage. However, findings in the field show that the patient identification process has not been completely carried out properly by health workers.

Purpose:  Analyze factors related to the implementation of patient identification in hospitals.

Method: This research uses a literature review method. Articles were collected from three database sources, namely ScienceDirect, Portal Garuda and Google Scholar, which were published between 2019 and 2023. Article searches used the keywords "related factors" AND "patient identification" AND "hospital".

Results: Research studies were conducted in three different countries and showed that there were various factors related to the implementation of patient identification in hospitals. The factors most frequently found were related to hospital facilities and supervision from superiors.

Conclusion: The implementation of patient identification in hospitals is related to three factors which are divided into predisposing factors, enabling factors and reinforcing factors.