Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 27

Handling conflicts of interest in peer review

July 5, 2006

A physician peer reviewer with a potential conflict of interest is ethically obligated to disclose it to the rest of the peer review committee. The committee will then determine whether the conflict is susbstantial enough that the peer reviewer in question should not be involved in their...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 26

CDC: Ambulatory care visits up 31% from 1994 to 2004

June 28, 2006

Americans made more than 1.1 billion visits annually to physician offices and hospital emergency and outpatient departments in 2004, up by 31% since 1994, according to the latest data released by The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on June 23, in its annual national hospital ambulatory medical...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 26

Use an effective rating system for case peer review

June 28, 2006

Flagging individual charts for physician review is just the beginning of the interpretation process; the real interpretation occurs when the physician reviewer looks at the chart. Common concerns are that chart review is subjective and that there is little consistency or inter-rater reliability...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 25

What to include in physician feedback reports

June 21, 2006

Since there is currently no standard performance feedback report from which to work, many healthcare organizations find themselves wondering exactly what types of information to include. Although each organization must decide for itself what physician data it will continually monitor, all...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 25

Institute of Medicine: Emergency care at breaking point

June 20, 2006

The nation's emergency medical system as a whole is overburdened, underfunded, highly fragmented, and ill-prepared to handle surges from disasters, according to a series of reports released June 14 by the Institute of Medicine (IoM). The IoM's recommendations for resolving these problems include...

Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 7, Issue 24

Deciding where to stand on ethics

June 13, 2006

A person who believes it is important to consider the interests and concerns of other stakeholders in a situation is said to act ethically. A person who acts only in his or her own interest, even when others are harmed, is said to act unethically. In what they say and do, all leaders consciously...

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