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Background: Patient safety is a crucial issue and a focus of policy standard in internationally accredited organizations. Patient identification (ID) errors can disrupt care and harm patients in virtually every facet of clinical medicine, including diagnostic testing, medication administration, and even billing. Method: A medical librarian performed searches of PubMed, MEDLINE and the Patient Safety Network to identify relevant studies published from January 2008 to October 2018. We used medical-subject keywords : Identification patients, medical errors, patient safety, medication errors. Sorting articles through abstracts and free full text articles. Results: A total of 57 articles about the importance of patient safety in patient identification, 20 articles including inclusion criteria. Journals including inclusion criteria discuss the effectiveness of bracelet identification models, patient safety through patient identification. Many nurse, doctors and technician in clinical settings still found a patient identification culture carried out by health workers such as medical staff and paramedics who are not right. Conclusion: Implementation of patients identification by nurse, doctors and technician in clinical settings have not done properly still far from expectations. Therefore management must to evaluate and monitors routine implementation of patients identification at the hospital to civilize the officers to identify patients become a culture that is usually done by nurse, doctors and technician in clinical settings.