Internationalizing the National Practitioner Data Bank

The National Practitioner Data Bank: what CRNAs need to know.

As a nationwide flagging system, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) allows state licensing boards, hospitals, and other registered healthcare entities the ability to monitor practitioners through reporting and inquiry about the qualifications and competency of healthcare practitioners seeking clinical privileges where incompetence or unprofessional conduct could adversely affect a patie...

The growth of physician medical malpractice payments: evidence from the National Practitioner Data Bank.

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 percent per year) and now exceeds dollar 12 per capita each year. These increases are consistent wit...

The national practitioner data bank and CRNA anesthesia-related malpractice payments.

A retrospective analysis of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Public Use Data File was performed on anesthesia-related malpractice payments from 2004 to 2010. Anesthesia-related allegations, malpractice act or omission codes, severity of injury, and cost were assessed. The NPDB captured 369 anesthesia-related malpractice payments associated with Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists ...

National repositories of information: a comparison of the National Practitioner Data Bank in the United States and the National Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths in the United Kingdom.

International Practitioner Data Bank: false premise, false promise.

In 1984, the US General Accounting Office issued a report pointing out that physicians who lost their licence to practice in one state were continuing to practice in another [1]. In 1986, a federal court issued a ruling that physicians carrying out peer review activities in an Oregon medical clinic violated antitrust laws [2]. Both actions triggered calls for congressional action. Consumer advo...