“Peer-to-peer review helps hospitals to discuss their problems in a safe environment, when it isn’t a crisis. We should strive for a day when a hospitals voluntarily and routinely take part in these exercises.”
Today’s healthcare environment is ever-shifting, often making it difficult for providers to keep up. However, the incentives to do so remain high, especially with the continuing physician shortage. As of 2016, the number of nurse practitioners (NP) has increased by 23% and the number of...
Last month, my column covered the evolution of peer review during the 20th century and some lessons learned from its successes and failures. To quickly summarize, the changes in medical staff structures and functions began to intertwine with a desire for better measurement of physician...
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?”
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.
