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- From: sfassman@titan.ucc.umass.edu (SUSAN F ASSMANN)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Malpractice database
- Message-ID: <BxBrzr.D1J@nic.umass.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 02:52:38 GMT
- References: <Nov.5.11.07.40.1992.4970@cadenza.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Nov.5.11.07.40.1992.4970@cadenza.rutgers.edu> masticol@cadenza.rutgers.edu (Steve Masticola) writes:
- >
- >I heard that there is a database on malpractice suits and punitive
- >actions against MDs. If so, does anyone know how to get access to it?
- >I think this would be very handy to check up on the competence of a
- >prospective MD.
- >
- >Thanks,
- >- Steve Masticola (masticol@cs.rutgers.edu).
-
- My health policies professor said that in the last year or two the
- Health Care Quality Improvement Act was passed. Judgements against
- doctors are reported to a national data bank. Before a hospital
- grants staff priveleges to someone, they're supposed to check the data
- bank. The professor implied that the average consumer would not be
- able to get access to this data bank. Could this be what you had
- heard of?
- Another possible source, according to a friend, might be the Lexis
- legal database.
-