Back in December 2017, CVS Health announced its intentions to buy out Aetna insurance for $69 billion. More recently, according to Forbes, the Department...
“Medicine is fast becoming a field of editing for the sake of efficiency, but how much farther can we go before the story we are left with is not at all a reflection of the author?”
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 2
This case highlights how an entire organization (i.e., board, medical staff leadership, CEO, attorney) was unclear about the employment/contract route versus the medical staff privileging process. Whether it was lack of knowledge or purposeful, the outcome was not good as evidenced by the jury’s...
Antimicrobial stewardship is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics), improves patient outcomes, reduces microbial resistance, and decreases the spread of infections caused by multidrug-resistant organisms.
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In recent years, it has become common for patients to sue a hospital for negligent peer review when they bring a malpractice action against a physician. Their claim generally is that inadequate medical staff monitoring of an incompetent physician allowed a bad outcome in their care. These are...