The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 and the National Practitioner Data Bank: The controversy over practitioner privacy versus public access

Bulletin of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 263-269

  Heffernan, Margot ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION SERVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PRIVACY;

CONFIDENTIALITY; MALPRACTICE; NATIONAL PRACTITIONER DATA BANK; PEER REVIEW, HEALTH CARE; PRIVACY; PUBLIC POLICY; PUBLIC RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030015456     PISSN: 00257338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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