The public now has until tomorrow to submit suggestions for revisions to the NPDB Guidebook. The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) guide will incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition (2001), including the merger of the NPDB with the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
Last month a panel of experts recommended that the threshold for treating people over 60 for hypertension be raised from 140/90 to 150/90. The panel determined that there was little evidence that lowering systolic blood pressures between 140 and 149 in older people caused more good than harm....
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 15, Issue 5
As chilling as our top story is this week, it might lead to a discussion about the widening variety of care sought by patients. “Alternative therapies” are part of the lexicon for many people, and physicians shouldn’t dismiss them completely if there is replicable, clinical study evidence that...
Adoption of basic electronic health record (EHR) systems by office-based physicians increased 21% from 2012 to 2013, according to an issue brief from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a unit of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last year, 48.1% of physicians had...
The public now has until January 31 to submit suggestions for revisions to the NPDB Guidebook. The National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) guidebook will incorporate legislative and regulatory changes adopted since its last edition (2001), including the merger of the NPDB with the...
New expert guidance from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, published online last week in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, could make the white coat a relic. The recommendations suggest that physicians ditch traditional white coats, which could...
