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Mandatory reporting of impaired medical practitioners: protecting patients, supporting practitioners

Taking action to protect patients from impaired colleagues is a long-standing ethical and professional obligation. In 2010, this responsibility was codified in law with the introduction, across Australia, of a new mandatory reporting regimen. While several concerns remain to be addressed, mandatory...

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Autores principales: Bismark, M M, Morris, J M, Clarke, C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4313682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25442757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.12613
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description Taking action to protect patients from impaired colleagues is a long-standing ethical and professional obligation. In 2010, this responsibility was codified in law with the introduction, across Australia, of a new mandatory reporting regimen. While several concerns remain to be addressed, mandatory reporting has the potential not only to reinforce the primacy of patient safety, but also to open internal dialogue about the profession's response to concerns about practitioner health and well-being. Four years after the introduction of the scheme, key challenges include ensuring the reporting threshold is appropriately defined and clearly understood, improving access to evidence-based health programmes for practitioners, and strengthening upstream protections to prevent and minimise impairment at its roots.
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spelling pubmed-43136822015-02-10 Mandatory reporting of impaired medical practitioners: protecting patients, supporting practitioners Bismark, M M Morris, J M Clarke, C Intern Med J Current Controversies Taking action to protect patients from impaired colleagues is a long-standing ethical and professional obligation. In 2010, this responsibility was codified in law with the introduction, across Australia, of a new mandatory reporting regimen. While several concerns remain to be addressed, mandatory reporting has the potential not only to reinforce the primacy of patient safety, but also to open internal dialogue about the profession's response to concerns about practitioner health and well-being. Four years after the introduction of the scheme, key challenges include ensuring the reporting threshold is appropriately defined and clearly understood, improving access to evidence-based health programmes for practitioners, and strengthening upstream protections to prevent and minimise impairment at its roots. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-12 2014-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4313682/ /pubmed/25442757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imj.12613 Text en © 2014 The Authors. Internal Medicine Journal published by Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd on behalf of Royal Australasian College of Physicians. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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