[Identitovigilance and its impact on the results ensuring the transfusion security]

Errors on identity of patients during their registration may lead to non-compliance with a transfusion procedure, a non-issue adjusted blood and thus a transfusion risk. The main mistake is the misknowledge of an antibody, secondarily a loss of transfusion information and a redundancy of examinations. The creation of a working group "identitovigilance" helped sensitize the staff of health establishments and clinical chemistry laboratories. In this area of computerization of medical and transfusion records, shared folders and networking, identification of patients is a real issue of risk management hospital.