Identity Crisis: An Examination of the Costs and Benefits of a Unique Patient Identifier for the US Health Care System. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Identity Crisis: An Examination of the Costs and Benefits of a Unique Patient Identifier for the US Health Care System. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Book/Report
 
• Published October 2008

Identity Crisis: An Examination of the Costs and Benefits of a Unique Patient Identifier for the US Health Care System.

Hillestad R, Bigelow JH, Chaudhry B, et al. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation; 2008.

This monograph reports on the concept of creating a unique patient identifier system and addresses potential privacy, error, and cost issues.

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