Physicians' willingness to report impaired colleagues

Neil J. Farber, Stephanie G. Gilibert, Brian M. Aboff, Virginia U. Collier, Joan Weiner and E. Gil Boyer

Social Science & Medicine, 2005, vol. 61, issue 8, 1772-1775

Abstract: We surveyed physicians to determine what factors were associated with their reporting of impaired colleagues to Physician Health Programs (PHPs). We conducted a cross-sectional mail survey of 1000 randomly selected practicing physicians in the United States. A survey instrument asked the physicians whether they would report 10 hypothetical impaired colleagues to a PHP. The results show that a majority of the physicians would report physicians to PHPs, but were more likely to report hypothetical physicians involved in substance abuse than those who were emotionally or cognitively impaired (p

Keywords: Physician impairment Medical ethics Societal duty Confidentiality; US (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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