Patients are becoming increasingly involved in their own care, often doing Internet research and coming to office visits or the hospital armed with questions and their own ideas about what constitutes appropriate care. It's a good thing.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 2
An excerpt is adapted from The Medical Staff Professional's Handbook, by Anne Roberts, CPMSM, CPCS, and Maggie Palmer, MSA, CPMSM, CPCS, explains how to avoid negligent credentialing.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 2
Medical staffs frequently struggle to find new ways to encourage meeting attendance and participation; absentee ballots might be a solution for reaching quorum when voting on important issues.
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 22, Issue 2
If you have an A doctor for a chief of staff, hopefully he or she can attract A's and A-pluses. They could then, in theory, be more objective in supervising proctoring, reviewing quality data outcomes, and completing reference questionnaires.
Although The Joint Commission and other regulators require institutions to have credentialing, privileging, and peer review processes in place, there are legal concerns associated with each process. Negligent credentialing and antitrust concerns are a few legal issues that...