VA Health Care: Improved Oversight Needed for Reviewing and Reporting Providers for Quality and Safety Concerns

Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs requires its medical centers to review a doctor's care if quality or safety concerns arise. If the concerns are substantiated, medical center officials are required to inform hospitals and other health care entities by reporting the doctors to a national database and to the states where the doctor is licensed. However, we visited 5 VA medical centers and found that their reviews were not always timely and that VA officials did not report 8 of the 9 doctors who should have been reported. In the report on which this testimony is based we recommended VA improve oversight of clinical care reviews and reporting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 29, 2017
Accession Number
AD1163082

Entities

People

  • Randall B. Williamson

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Care Facilities
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • House Of Representatives
  • Judgment
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Governments
  • Physicians
  • Standards
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Veterans Health

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

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