A study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that surgical site infections (SSI) caused the most complications that led to postoperative patients being readmitted.
The U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (the "Court") denied a hospital's assertion that a state law peer review privilege protected its documents related to the death of a patient in response to a request from Disability Rights of North Carolina (DRNC), North...
Last month, we began the design of an actual OPPE system that can be used in your organization, starting with clinical case review. This month, a second OPPE measure will be added: professionalism. The recognition of professional conduct as a legitimate metric for the assessment of physician...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 24, Issue 2
Physicians in rural areas earn an average of $1,500 more in salary a year compared to their colleagues in more urban areas, according to data compiled by physician social network Doximity.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 3
Final-year medical residents reported being heavily recruited by hospitals, medical groups, and other organizations in response to the continuing physician shortage, according to the results of survey conducted by Merritt Hawkins.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 1
A study recently published in Academic Medicine found that primary care physicians were more likely to recommend a career as a primary care nurse practitioner than their own career.
While the basic concept of peer review has remained the same over the years?the evaluation of a physician's competencies and ability to deliver safe and effective care?the ways it is performed and evaluated have changed, as well as the question of who falls into the peer review bucket. The same...
