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

Abstract

The Department of Veterans Affairs requires its medical centers to review a doctor's care if quality or safety concerns arise. If VA medical center officials decide a doctor should no longer provide care to veterans, they are required to inform hospitals and other health care entities by reporting to a national database and to the states where the doctor is licensed. However, at the 5 VA medical centers we reviewed, we found that these reviews were not always timely. We also found that VA officials did not report 8 of the 9 doctors who should have been reported. We recommended VA improve oversight of clinical care reviews and reporting.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 15, 2017
Accession Number
AD1163090

Entities

People

  • Randall B. Williamson
  • Sharon M. Silas

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Electronic Mail
  • Governments
  • Guidance
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • House Of Representatives
  • Law
  • Leadership
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Governments
  • Patient Care
  • Personnel Management
  • Physicians
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • Veterans Health

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

Readers

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  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
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