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Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2019-2021.

October 18, 2023

Wolfe SW, Oshel RE. Washington, DC: Public Citizen; August 16, 2023.

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There are recognized systemic weaknesses in identification and disciplinary programs addressing clinicians with poor performance records. This report examines the effectiveness of state medical-licensing boards as responsible parties to tracking problematic physicians. The reduction of variation in processes across various states, involvement of patients on review boards, and increased use of the National Practitioner Data Bank are suggested improvement strategies.

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