A Massachusetts coalition launched a state-wide initiative October 11 to reduce medication errors, providing a medication list for patients and providers and promoting tips for patients and their families on wise medication use.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 40
The National Association of Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) is urging the JCAHO to discontinue its revisions to Standard MS.1.20, which includes new elements of performance (EP) that would require medical staffs and the governing body to collaborate on the adoption of medical staff bylaws.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 40
If you are a medical staff leader, you may think that follow-up as a result of an MEC meeting is not your job. You may not write follow-up letters (you might sign them-but not write them!) and it is undoubtedly not your responsibility to write the minutes, etc. However, as a medical staff leader...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 39
Physicians frequently failed to communicate specific instructions to patients about newly prescribed medications, including dosing, adverse effects and how long to take the medication, in a study of outpatient encounters at two California healthcare systems published Sept. 26 in the Archives of...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 38
Continuing to provide medical care for critically ill and displaced patients during a disaster scenario, such as those experienced along the Gulf Coast during Katrina and Rita, requires logistical and tactical training and preparedness for circumstances such as loss of power, water, sanitation,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 38
A consent agenda is a tool that can be used to save meeting time and to help assure that committee time is spent on items that require discussion. Consent agendas expedite approval of routine, non-controversial business brought before the committee. The use of a consent agenda places...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 37
We are going to spend the next few issues of MS Leader Connection discussing the topic of how to have great Medical Executive Committee (MEC) meetings. And the good news is that the principles that are used to make MEC meetings efficient and productive can be applied to other medical staff...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 37
Quality reporting programs such as those mandated by the JCAHO and CMS play "complementary roles in encouraging quality improvement but are poorly coordinated and command sizeable resources," mainly due to the lack of adequate information technology (IT), according to a study published in the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 36
