New Study on Substance Abuse Rates Among Healthcare Workers

by aredmond (Posted Thu Oct 11, 2018 9:24 am) A recent study by Philadelphia law firm, Anapol Weiss, looked at nearly one million adverse action reports from the National Practitioner Data Bank and identified almost 100,000 disciplinary measures taken against US Healthcare professionals from 1999-2017.Some study highlights:-registered nurses had 5 times more offenses than traditional physicians-The highest number of offenses occurred in 2000, 2008 and 2010-Texas and California had the highest number of offensesYou can view the whole study here: https://www.anapolweiss.com/substance-abuse-healthcare-professionals/
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