Medical staffs across the country have found that establishing their own private treasury accounts funded by staff dues and application/reappointment fees has helped them maintain autonomy from hospital administration. This separation has become especially apparent when conflicts requiring...
This month we continue with a series on practical tips for medical staff leaders to deal with a host of challenges that they may encounter in their roles. The challenges and solutions are excerpted from The Medical Staff Leader's Survival Guide, which was recently published by HCPro. The...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 9
The Credentialing Resource Center is constantly updating its library of Clinical Privilege White Papers, which outline sample privileging criteria and background research for a wide range of medical specialty and subspecialty areas, procedures, and allied health...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 23, Issue 9
Autopsy is a core privilege for pathologists, but because few pathologists perform the procedure in hospitals, this doesn't usually present a credentialing concern, according to some medical services professionals and consultants. Nevertheless, it can raise policy questions for medical staffs,...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division, denied a motion to compel the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) to produce documents created by its institutional review board (IRB) in regard to a clinical research trial performed on...
