The '''NPDB Guidebook''' is a publicly available, downloadable set of rules and procedures for hospitals to report physicians to the [[National Practitioner Data Bank]] in connection with adverse [[peer review]] actions.<ref>http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/npdbguidebook.html</ref>
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The '''NPDB Guidebook''' is a publicly available, downloadable set of rules and procedures for hospitals to report physicians to the [[National Practitioner Data Bank]] in connection with adverse [[peer review]] disciplinary actions.<ref>http://www.npdb-hipdb.hrsa.gov/npdbguidebook.html</ref>