DOD Health Care: Additional Efforts Needed to Verify Physicians' Qualifications

Abstract

Highly publicized instances of problems in Department of Defense (DOD) medicine have resulted in much congressional concern and intense public scrutiny of DOD medical care. At the request of the Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Personnel and Compensation, House Committee on Armed Services, and Senators Daniel Inouye, Claiborne Pell, and Jim Sasser, GAO evaluated DOD systems used to determine the adequacy of physician qualifications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1988
Accession Number
AD1175554

Entities

People

  • Lawrence H. Thompson

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Business Administration
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Congress
  • Databases
  • Employment
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Facilities
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Physicians
  • Statistical Samples
  • Therapy
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.