title: Malpractice coverage for health professionals with physical, mental, or substance-abuse impairments. How do insurance companies make their decisions?
abstract: How do insurance companies decide whether or not to provide malpractice insurance to health professionals? What information do they gather on applicants and renewing policyholders? Who has the responsibility to determine if health professionals are suffering from physical, mental, or substance-abuse impairments that make them unfit to care for patients? The authors conducted a survey to find the answers to these questions.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
authors.forename: I E
authors.initials: IE
authors.lastname: Swenson
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Foster
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D007343:Insurance Carriers; D015273:Insurance Selection Bias; D007351:Insurance, Liability / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009657:North Carolina; D011361:Professional Competence; D011363:Professional Impairment / Q000191:economics*; D012306:Risk; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires