title: Patients are people with names, not a bed number or an ailment.
abstract: Ensuring patients are called by their preferred name is vital to compassionate care, yet I still hear staff refer to patients as 'bed 16' or 'the chest infection'.
authors.forename: Donato
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Tallo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009275:Names; D009740:Nursing Staff; D010355:Patient Identification Systems