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National Practitioner Data Bank (0):
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National Practitioner Data Bank
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The purpose of this article is to increase awareness among plastic surgeons of the applications and implications of the National Practitioner Data Bank.
A literature review using PubMed and Google was conducted regarding the history, function, and outcomes of the National Practitioner Data Bank, a f...
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PMID: 20697316
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Federal Register (75)18 2010
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This final rule revises existing regulations under sections 401 through 432 of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, governing the National Practitioner Data Bank for Adverse Information on Physicians and Other Health Care Practitioners, to incorporate statutory requirements under section...
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PMID: 20352662
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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 inc...
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PMID: 20568586
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Michigan medicine (108)3 2009
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Credentialing is the administrative process for validating the qualifications of licensed professionals and appraising their background. It is used by hospitals and other health care facilities, educational institutions, and insurance companies to ensure the qualification of their clinicians and to...
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PMID: 18501728
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Medical Economics (85)4 2008
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As the nursing shortage worsens and the care required by the elderly population increases and becomes more complex, the need for accurate, portable, and permanent electronic documentation methods will and must become an integral part of gerontological nurses' routine recordkeeping. Integrating techn...
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PMID: 17899994
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Modern Healthcare (37)24 2007
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Health Affairs (26)2 2007
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Our results suggest that (1) the size and number of medical malpractice payments are affected by only some tort reforms; and (2) the pattern of reforms differs between states with high versus low levels of claims or payments....
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PMID: 17339679
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Anesthesia & Analgesia (103)5 2006
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Joint Commission perspectives. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (26)11 2006
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Archives of Surgery (141)9 2006
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Wrong-side/wrong-site, wrong-procedure, and wrong-patient adverse events, although rare, are more common than health care providers and patients appreciate. Prevention of WSPEs requires new and innovative technologies, reporting of case occurrence, and learning from successful safety initiatives (su...
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PMID: 16983037
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Anesthesia & Analgesia (103)3 2006
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We found that between 1991 and 2004, there were 276,274 medical malpractice-related payments in the United States. During that period, 8297 anesthesia-related malpractice payments were made on behalf of practitioners in the United States. When adjusted for population growth, there was a 27.7% decrea...
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PMID: 16931675
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Dental malpractice settlements and judgments generally have kept pace with inflation over the past decade. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS: Dentists should be aware that the NPDB retains reports of adverse actions and malpractice settlements and judgments indefinitely. These reports are available to hospitals...
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PMID: 16637482
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Significant reductions in malpractice payments could be realized if total or noneconomic damage caps were operating nationally. Hard noneconomic damage and total damage caps could yield lower premiums. If tied to a comprehensive plan for reform, the money saved could be diverted to implement alterna...
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PMID: 16735526
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Our survey of NPDB users demonstrates that although the NPDB has generated substantial controversy and its information is nominally available from other sources, it still plays an important role in the credentialing process. Most institutions make timely NPDB inquiries that facilitate widespread use...
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PMID: 16401703
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Modern Healthcare (35)43 2005
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Neural Networks (18)8 2005
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We first briefly review the literature on graph kernels and then introduce three new kernels (Tanimoto, MinMax, Hybrid) based on the idea of molecular fingerprints and counting labeled paths of depth up to d using depth-first search from each possible vertex. The kernels are applied to three classif...
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PMID: 16157471
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Modern Healthcare (35)30 2005
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Modern Healthcare (35)30 2005
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The National Practitioner Data Bank was born in 1990, touted as an authoritative way to track doctors whose privileges were suspended. Initial predictions expected up to 10,000 reports yearly, but only about 10,800 reports have been made in 15 years. Many believe hospitals skirt the system by just i...
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PMID: 16101245
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Modern Healthcare (35)7 2005
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Texas nursing (79)2 2005
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Health Affairs (Suppl Web Exclusives) 2005
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We used data from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) to study the growth of physician malpractice payments. Judgments at trial account for 4 percent of all malpractice payments; settlements account for the remaining 96 percent. The average payment grew 52 percent between 1991 and 2003 (4 perc...
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PMID: 15928255
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The public has the right to safe, quality healthcare delivered by professionals with the appropriate education, training, and experience. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare, and managed care organizations take th...
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PMID: 15714014
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Nursing Management (35 Suppl 4) 2004
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Federal Register (69)116 2004
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The rule makes technical changes to the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank (HIPDB) data collection reporting requirements set forth in 45 CFR part 61 by clarifying the types of personal numeric identifiers that may be reported to the data bank in connection with adverse actions. Specifica...
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PMID: 15202453
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American Journal of Nursing (104)5 2004
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New Jersey nurse (34)3 2004
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Nursing Management (35)2 2004
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Nursing Management (34)10 2003
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Correct charting, updated policies and procedures, and firm staff understanding are critical components of avoiding medical malpractice.
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PMID: 14557776
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American Journal of Nursing (103)9 2003
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NPDB reports provide accurate and complete information that is useful to providers in their credentialing process....
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PMID: 12953606
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Inquiry (Rochester) (40)3 2003
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We examine rates of unpaid claims, trials, resolution time, physician defense costs, and payments on claims with a low/high probability of negligence. We find that physicians and their insurers have been less likely to settle claims since introduction of the NPDB, especially for payments less than d...
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PMID: 14680260
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Connecticut medicine (66)10 2002
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We recommend the implementation of two processes to avoid legal pitfalls: (1) Liability can be minimized if proctoring consents are obtained that clearly delineate the proctor's responsibilities during the operation. (2) Medical staff bylaws should clearly specify the temporal relationship between a...
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PMID: 12135714
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Iowa Law Review (87)4 2002
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American Journal of Nursing (101)12 2001
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Peer review is essential for ensuring quality medical care. In the 1980s a physician-plaintiff prevailed in lawsuit filed against peer reviewers who excluded the physician from a hospital's medical staff. The peer reviewers had acted to preserve their own economic interests. A multimillion-dollar ve...
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PMID: 11574078
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Hospital peer review (26)8 2001
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The Lancet (357)9271 2001
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Modern Healthcare (31)22 2001
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Nursing Management (32)5 2001
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Review this lawsuit that highlights the impact of malpractice data banks on health care. Test your knowledge with the following questions, then check your answers at http://www.nursingmanagement.com.
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PMID: 15103836
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Modern Healthcare (31)8 2001
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