MEDICAL: MALPRACTICE : DATABASES : UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT: 20 years of Malpractice Data Still Mostly Closed to Public

[David P. Dillard]

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MEDICAL: MALPRACTICE :
DATABASES :
UNITED STATES: GOVERNMENT:
20 years of Malpractice Data Still Mostly Closed to Public



20 years of Malpractice Data Still Mostly Closed to Public
By GAVIN OFF World Data Editor
Published: 11/23/2009 2:19 AM
Last Modified: 11/23/2009 4:12 AM
Tulsa World
<http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=
17&articleid=20091123_17_A1_Moreth844691&rss_lnk=11>


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More than 20 years ago Congress created a federal database to track
incompetent and unprofessional health-care practitioners.

The database, compiled by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, includes some 460,000 records of malpractice lawsuits whose
judgments total $69.7 billion.

It includes information on 23,788 patient deaths, 8,100 major permanent
injuries and 3,896 cases that resulted in quadriplegics, brain damage or
lifelong care.

But much of the data is closed to the public.

Although the full database is open to hospitals, managed care
organizations and state licensing agencies, the public can view only
limited information, such as the lawsuit's allegation and the patient's
health.

Meanwhile, the doctors' names remain hidden, preventing patients from
using the data to look up information on their practitioner.

"I can certainly see the advantage to the general public or the patients
to have all the information available," said Lyle Kelsey, director of the
Oklahoma Board of Medical Licensure and Supervision. "The other side of
that is not all of that information may be correct. There's a lot of
criticism that some of the information is misleading."




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