Physician health and wellbeing provide challenges to patient safety and outcome quality across the careerspan. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Physician health and wellbeing provide challenges to patient safety and outcome quality across the careerspan. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published February 2016

Physician health and wellbeing provide challenges to patient safety and outcome quality across the careerspan.

Williams BW, Flanders P. Australas Psychiatry. 2016;24:144-147.

This case series of physicians evaluated for fitness for duty found that health, independent of age, is related to worsening clinical performance. The authors recommend screening for physician fitness based on overall physical and mental health rather than at a given age threshold.

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