Q: Are employed physicians who have been granted privileges subject to the organized medical staff’s clinical case review portion of the ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) policy and all its attendant protections?
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Today’s free resource is a sample reappointment OPPE scorecard courtesy of Beebe Healthcare, a nonprofit community hospital in Lewes, Delaware, that upholds professional practice evaluation as one landmark in the greater quality landscape.
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The frequency with which a medical staff services department or quality department distributes OPPE reports depends on its accreditor’s specifications for the review cycle. For example, The Joint Commission requires organizations to perform OPPE more frequently than once per year to meet its...
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This week, CRC Daily covers ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE). The frequency with which a medical staff services department or quality department distributes OPPE reports depends on its accreditor’s specifications for the review cycle.
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In 2011, The Joint Commission published an OPPE/FPPE-focused Standards BoosterPak, in which it pointed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s core competencies as a potential framework for evaluating practitioners who are credentialed and privileged through the...
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