In last week's column, I wrote about the collaboration that is necessary between medical staff leaders and medical staff professionals to support the medical staff organization. I offered to provide a sample job description for a director of medical staff services. The sample job description...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 41
A Massachusetts coalition launched a state-wide initiative October 11 to reduce medication errors, providing a medication list for patients and providers and promoting tips for patients and their families on wise medication use.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 40
The National Association of Medical Staff Services (NAMSS) is urging the JCAHO to discontinue its revisions to Standard MS.1.20, which includes new elements of performance (EP) that would require medical staffs and the governing body to collaborate on the adoption of medical staff bylaws.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 40
If you are a medical staff leader, you may think that follow-up as a result of an MEC meeting is not your job. You may not write follow-up letters (you might sign them-but not write them!) and it is undoubtedly not your responsibility to write the minutes, etc. However, as a medical staff leader...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 39
Physicians frequently failed to communicate specific instructions to patients about newly prescribed medications, including dosing, adverse effects and how long to take the medication, in a study of outpatient encounters at two California healthcare systems published Sept. 26 in the Archives of...
