Crossing the line: Sexual misconduct by nurses reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine nurse sexual-misconduct-related reports in the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) and to compare them with reports for other types of offenses.

Design And Population: We analyzed NPDB's reports of adverse state nursing board licensure actions and malpractice payments for all nurses from January 1, 2003, to June 30, 2016.

Results: Overall, 882 nurses had sexual-misconduct-related reports.

The Detection, Analysis, and Significance of Physician Clustering in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Payouts.

Objectives: There is evidence that most adverse events result from individual errors and that most malpractice suits with payouts reflect both patient injury and error.

Hypothesis: There are outlier physicians with regard to the frequency and total amount of malpractice payouts.

Methods: Using the public use file of the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), we sought the percentage of physicians who lay above several cutoff points with regard to total amounts of payments and number of payments.

Cross-Sectional Analysis of the 1039 U.S. Physicians Reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank for Sexual Misconduct, 2003-2013.

Background: Little information exists on U.S. physicians who have been disciplined with licensure or restriction-of-clinical-privileges actions or have had malpractice payments because of sexual misconduct.