Document Detail


The impact of the National Practitioner Data Bank on licensing actions by state medical licensing boards.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  20568586     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The United States Congress mandated the establishment of the National Practitioner Data Bank in large part to decrease the likelihood that errant individuals might be able to avoid detection by licensing boards and practice medicine. We use a decade of longitudinal data (1985-94), for each of the 50 states, to evaluate the Bank's impact on state licensing board actions, during the four years following its 1990 birth. The results of a pooled, time-series analysis reveal that medical board restrictions on physicians' practices increased substantially following the creation of the Data Bank. We conclude that the increase was likely due to the licensing boards taking actions against delinquent physicians who had previously slipped through cracks in the regulatory system or who had earlier received warnings or administrative fines.
Authors:
Paul Jesilow; Julianne Ohlander
Related Documents :
17721166 - National association of medical examiners position paper on the medical examiner releas...
7778046 - Board trouble. what activities attract the attention of the texas state board of medica...
2011826 - Miotics and retinal detachment: upgrading the community standard.
18791296 - "not from the college, but through the public and the legislature": charles maclean and...
16889456 - A prospective study of risk factors for nonadherence with antipsychotic medication in t...
16499276 - Form reconciles meds, but doctor buy-in difficult.
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of health and human services administration     Volume:  33     ISSN:  1079-3739     ISO Abbreviation:  J Health Hum Serv Adm     Publication Date:  2010  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-06-23     Completed Date:  2010-07-27     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  9501928     Medline TA:  J Health Hum Serv Adm     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  94-126     Citation Subset:  H    
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, USA.
Export Citation:
APA/MLA Format     Download EndNote     Download BibTex
MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Humans
Licensure, Medical / standards*,  statistics & numerical data
National Practitioner Data Bank*
Politics
United States

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine


Previous Document:  The effect of rurality and gender on stroke awareness of adults in West Virginia.
Next Document:  The role of bisphosphonates in the adjuvant setting for breast cancer.