Physician health programmes and malpractice claims: Reducing risk through monitoring

Occupational Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 274-280

  Brooks, E ^a   Gendel, M H ^b   Gundersen, D C ^b   Early, S R ^b   Schirrmacher, R ^c   Lembitz, A ^d   Shore, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Colorado Physician Health Program ^*  (United States)

^c Independent Consultant   (United States)

^d Department of Patient Safety and Risk Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Mental health; Monitoring; Occupational health; Physician health programmes physicians; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAMMES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE.; UNITED STATES;

MENTAL HEALTH; MONITORING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICIAN HEALTH PROGRAMMES; PHYSICIANS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE.;

ADULT; COLORADO; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; PHYSICIAN IMPAIRMENT; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STATE HEALTH PLANS;

EID: 84878449313     PISSN: 09627480     EISSN: 14718405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqt036     Document Type: Article

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