Hospitals are not reporting practitioners to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) as often as they should, claims a new study by Health Research Group, a branch of the consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 22
Wondering whether your facility should pursue a joint venture with several local physicians? Pondering the benefits of gain sharing? Debating over physician employment? Joint HCPro on June 16 for Physician-Hospital Alignment: Practical Tools...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 22
Locum tenens is a Latin term for “placeholder” and is not a term that The Joint Commission uses. It is typically a term recognized and used by traveling physicians who fill an institution’s need for a particular specialty or subspecialty for a specific time.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 22
When physicians are given feedback data regarding outcomes, a common response is “My outcomes are worse because my patients are sicker.” This concern is legitimate and should be addressed by using data adjusted for the severity of the patients’ illnesses or other risk factors such as smoking and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 22
I recently attended a peer review committee meeting, during which I learned that the quality improvement staff delayed a case review by several months because the attending physician under review had not dictated a discharge summary. Although the case was referred because of a serious concern,...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 10, Issue 21
