Civil Identification as a Unique Patient Identifier for Hospitals in Kuwait

Background: A unified patient identifier is an essential item in improving the quality of health care delivery. This is the trend and major progress has been achieved in many developed and developing countries. In Kuwait each hospital had its own identifier and linking the patient data is rather dif...

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Main Authors: Kamel A. Alsaleh, Faisal Alsharifi, Bader Al-Khalaf, Samy Elewa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Alexandria University 2007-06-01
Series:Journal of High Institute of Public Health
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