Physician performance feedback reports are only effective when the medical staff adopts a culture that accepts the validity of such reports and acts on them. Medical staff leadership must support the implementation of effective data collection systems and...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 33
A Texas appeals court recently found that a plastic surgery patient, who brought a negligent credentialing suit against a hospital following injury, failed to satisfy a state law that required her to submit expert reports to support her healthcare liability claim.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 31
"Continue to monitor," states the minutes of the surgical department meeting. "Tell the nursing supervisor to keep her eyes open," says the department chair. When a particular physician's name comes up yet again at the medical executive committee meeting, all eyes immediately began scanning the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 6, Issue 30
The number of Americans having weight-loss surgery more than quadrupled between 1998 and 2002 from 13,386 to 71,733, according to a study published in the July 12 issue of Health Affairs.
