Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 30

Impairment versus disruptive behavior

July 25, 2006

Sometimes well-intentioned medical staff leaders limit their effectiveness by confusing disruptive behavior with impairment. If an underlying impairment is the cause of disruptive behavior, our impulse is to heal it by providing a therapeutic intervention. But in many cases, the problematic...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 29

Study: Higher ED use not caused by uninsured, immigrants

July 18, 2006

Contrary to popular perception, higher levels of uninsured, low-income, minority, and immigrant populations do not cause higher rates of emergency department (ED) use, according to an analysis of 60 American communities.

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 28

Editorial: Better care, not more physicians

July 12, 2006

An analysis of physician labor inputs across regions with an academic medical center projects a surplus of nearly 50,000 physicians by the year 2020, based on regions with the lowest number of doctors per capita. The lead author of the study argues that adding more physicians to the workforce is...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 28

Survey: Rural practitioners see palliative care needing improvement

July 11, 2006

Fifty percent of healthcare providers in rural Colorado and Kansas believe that palliative care at the end of life could be improved at their facility, according to the results of a survey published in the Journal of Rural Health. Differences in perceptions of palliative care among clinicians,...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 28

Creating a physician performance feedback report

July 11, 2006

The task of creating physician feedback reports has been a challenge for years. There are no official guidelines on what type of data to include or how organizations should collect and calculate those data. And although some medical societies publish benchmarking data for certain procedures,...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 27

JAMA editorial: Measure more processes to improve care

July 5, 2006

A study of quality process measures for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) found that their application accounted for only 6% of hospital-level variation in risk-standardized, 30-day mortality rates for patients with AMI. The study, published in the July 5 issue of the Journal of the American...

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