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The due process manual, Part 1: Introduction

It is useful to recall that there is no prescribed format for creating medical staff bylaws and associated documents. Laws, regulations, and accreditation standards require medical staffs to address some issues in the bylaws, but how these issues are organized and addressed is up to each medical staff. In previous articles, we identified that a best practice is to organize medical staff responsibilities and functions into a series of manuals. Each manual deals in depth with a particular area in an organized fashion. The manuals are designed to clearly capture how the medical staff handles required or delegated functions. Here is how the series of manuals might look.

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