When you, as a manger, find yourself repeatedly addressing the same issues, ask yourself whether you have really addressed them or just placed a temporary bandage on them. When processing any complaint from staff, colleagues, or physicians, always be sure to follow these important steps.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 12
During the past six months, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has increased its number of inpatient quality indicators (IQI) and patient safety indicators (PSI). Indicators targeted for 2010 include death among surgical patients with treatable serious complications,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 11
A lack of precision should not prevent the reasonable interpretation of physician performance data as long as the data are being used reasonably. Executives make reasonable decisions all the time based on imprecise data. Here are four helpful principles regarding the interpretation of imprecise...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 11
More medical groups are offering part-time schedules or decreased responsibilities to keep veteran physicians on staff, according to the 2008 Physician Retention Survey conducted by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Cejka Search.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 10
Medical organizations are increasing the number of advanced practitioners (PAs, NPs, and certified registered nurse anesthetists) on staff to support physicians, according to Cejka Search and the American Medical Group Association.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 10
What happens when a neurosurgeon is paid $2,000 to take ED call but rarely comes into the hospital? How does the gastroenterologist who does not receive payment for ED call feel about the inequality in compensation?
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 10
If your hospital's risk management department defers cases to the medical staff peer review committee, you may want to rethink your strategy, says Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in Marblehead, MA.
