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National Practitioner Data Bank

"National Practitioner Data Bank" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

A databank established by the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 authorizing the Department of Health and Human Services to collect and release information on the professional competence and conduct of physicians, dentists, nurses, and other health care practitioners. The data include adverse actions on physicians' malpractice, licensure, hospital privileges, concealing of pertinent information, and the like.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "National Practitioner Data Bank" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "National Practitioner Data Bank" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 9 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2011
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