About four years ago, we (and when I say "we," I mean "me," as I am a one-woman office) instituted evergreen letters. The evergreen serves as a verification of privileges and as a clinical reference. On our evergreen form, the department chair completes the evaluation section, and I complete a...
The Supreme Court of Texas (the "Court") recently held that a trial court failed to adequately review allegedly privileged documents?to determine if they were disclosable pursuant to an exception to the state's peer review statute--before issuing an order compelling Christus Santa Rosa Health...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 25, Issue 8
Pulse check: Experts weigh in on last year's NPDB Guidebook updates
Last April, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finalized the first substantive updates to the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook in more than a decade. Roughly one...
My goal in consulting and writing is to help medical staffs move from a punitive or indifferent peer review culture to one that supports physician improvement and the pursuit of excellence. The good news is that peer review culture can change. But how do you get there? In my experience, there...
One of the most common situations that causes attribution difficulties is when care of a patient is handed off to multiple practitioners. Often, staff will list in the medical record the name of the physician who admitted the patient; however, throughout the patient's stay, the record is not...
