 Physician Impairment
"Physician Impairment" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The physician's inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to the patient due to the physician's disability. Common causes include alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, and senility.
| Descriptor ID |
D010815
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.583.524.528.500 N03.706.535.606.528.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Physician Impairment- Physician Impairment
- Impairment, Physician
- Impairments, Physician
- Physician Impairments
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| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Physician Impairment" by people in Profiles.
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Lall MD, Gaeta TJ, Chung AS, Chinai SA, Garg M, Husain A, Kanter C, Khandelwal S, Rublee CS, Tabatabai RR, Takayesu JK, Zaher M, Himelfarb NT. Assessment of Physician Well-being, Part Two: Beyond Burnout. West J Emerg Med. 2019 03; 20(2):291-304.
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West CP, Dyrbye LN, Shanafelt TD. Physician burnout: contributors, consequences and solutions. J Intern Med. 2018 06; 283(6):516-529.
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Dyrbye LN, West CP, Satele D, Boone S, Sloan J, Shanafelt TD. A national study of medical students' attitudes toward self-prescribing and responsibility to report impaired colleagues. Acad Med. 2015 Apr; 90(4):485-93.
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Dyrbye LN, Satele D, Sloan J, Shanafelt TD. Utility of a brief screening tool to identify physicians in distress. J Gen Intern Med. 2013 Mar; 28(3):421-7.
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Wynia MK. The role of professionalism and self-regulation in detecting impaired or incompetent physicians. JAMA. 2010 Jul 14; 304(2):210-2.
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Wilson JE, Kiselanova N, Stevens Q, Lutz R, Mandler T, Tran ZV, Wischmeyer PE. A survey of inhalational anaesthetic abuse in anaesthesia training programmes. Anaesthesia. 2008 Jun; 63(6):616-20.
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Wischmeyer PE, Johnson BR, Wilson JE, Dingmann C, Bachman HM, Roller E, Tran ZV, Henthorn TK. A survey of propofol abuse in academic anesthesia programs. Anesth Analg. 2007 Oct; 105(4):1066-71, table of contents.
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Steiner JF. Using stories to disseminate research: the attributes of representative stories. J Gen Intern Med. 2007 Nov; 22(11):1603-7.
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Matsumura JS. Substance abuse and anesthesiology training. JAMA. 1990 Dec 05; 264(21):2741-2.
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