Lack of NPDB reporting brings peer review practices into question
Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, August 1, 2009
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As of December 2007, nearly 50% of U.S. hospitals had never reported a physician to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), according to a recent report from Public Citizen, Hospitals Drop the Ball on Physician Oversight: Failure of Hospitals to Discipline and Report Doctors Endangers Patients (http://tinyurl.com/PublicCitizenReport).
One would like to believe that those hospitals ¬simply didn’t have any problem physicians to report in the nearly two decades since the NPDB was established, but ineffective peer review is the more likely culprit.
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