Elk Grove Village, ILâ(ENEWSPF)âJuly 13, 2015. When babies are born, hospitals often assign generic, temporary first names to infants under their care such as Babyboy or Babygirl. These temporary names become especially problematic when newborns are admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), where a large number of patients may have similar identifiers. Previous studies have shown that several of the most serious medical errors reported by NICUs were due to patient misidentification.
