Ensuring Safe Practice by Late Career Physicians: Institutional Policies and Implementation Experiences
Abstract
Late career physicians (those working beyond age 65-75) may be at higher risk for delivering unsafe care. To oversee LCPs, some health care organizations have adopted LCP policies requiring cognitive, physical, and practice performance screening assessments. This article reports a mixed-methods study using content analysis and key informant interviews to characterize key features of LCP policies and challenges encountered in implementing them at US hospitals.