When granting temporary privileges, organizations should have policies that clearly outline their pre-established criteria. Although expediting the process is important, MSPs must ensure that each practitioner’s current clinical competence is verified to protect patient safety and avoid...
Credentialing and privileging have long been keystones of quality care and patient safety. But as healthcare reform drives consolidation, integration, and value-based reimbursement, these perennial functions are taking on new forms, environments, and significance. The following Q&A...
The CRC team hears it often--dollars for education continue to dwindle. We know that often those in the medical staff services field have to choose only one conference a year to attend, or have to submit a budget and proposal to attend educational opportunities in the upcoming year. Let us make...
"For too long the medical profession has neglected the study of its own personnel and focused on patient care."
- Manit Arora, a surgeon and lecturer at University of New England in Armidale, Australia, and University of Queensland in Brisbane discusses burnout among...
Frequently, emergency and disaster privileges are confused. Emergency privileges are those privileges that the medical staff has granted to existing members to do whatever is necessary (within the scope of each practitioner’s license) to save the life, limb, or organ of a patient. Typically, the...
