Disciplinary Careers of Drug-Impaired Physicians  

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Holtman, Matthew C

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 64 no. 3 (Feb. 2007), page 543-553.
Topik: Impaired physicians; Event history; Drug abuse; Physician licensure; Physician discipline

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Alcohol and drug abuse are among the leading reasons for disciplinary action against physicians by state licensing authorities in the United States. I use event history models to describe the longitudinal patterns in disciplinary actions taken against physicians’ licenses by state medical boards in the United States, 1990–2000. Adverse licensure action episodes that included discipline for drug or alcohol abuse were more likely to be followed by license restoration than episodes that did not. However, those restorations were also more likely to be followed by subsequent disciplinary action than episodes that did not include discipline for drug abuse. Furthermore, disciplinary licensure actions for drug abuse were the category most likely to be followed by a subsequent action for the same reason over the longer term (4–11 years). The increased risk of repeat disciplinary action associated with drug abuse may result in part from intensive surveillance of physicians who complete impaired physician programs, through mechanisms that include urine screening. However, it is also likely that the chronic nature of addiction leads to continued risk of relapse even among physicians receiving appropriate treatment.

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