Licensure Actions Against Psychiatric Clinicians: A Cohort Analysis of National Practitioner Database Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine trends and predictors of administrative actions against psychiatric clinicians' licenses between 2002 and 2022.

Methods

Data from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) identified 6400 disciplinary actions against psychiatric clinicians' licenses. Linear trend models assessed the trends of disciplinary actions across mental/physical health, licensing/legal issues, and unprofessional conduct. A first-order autoregressive model with a time indicator interaction term evaluated structural breaks (ie, a sudden or gradual change in the characteristics of data in a time series). Predictors of claims were assessed using logistic regression.

Results

Since 2002, disciplinary actions related to clinicians' mental/physical health (P=0.004) and licensure/l

SUBMITTER: Dadlani A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11745757 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature