Since November 2004, the ear, nose and throat (ENT) surgery unit at Heartlands Hospital, in Birmingham, England, has used radio frequency identification to identify and track more than 1,000 ...

There were 387 patients included in the study with a median age of 69 years; 59.69% were female patients. The median age of inpatients and day ward patients were 70 and 68 years, respectively.