Over the past 15 years, an increasing number of hospitals have adopted some form of multi-specialty peer review. Before discussing this shift, there is a need to distinguish between two terms that are sometimes confused: multi-specialty and multi-disciplinary. Multi-specialty means that voting...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 26, Issue 11
The Appellate Court of Illinois for the Second District (the “Court”) upheld a county court's order requiring a hospital to produce notes authored by its medical staff quality committee (MSQC) liaison pertaining to care administered to a premature infant who died weeks after her birth.
"Writing Medical Staff Bylaws: How to Avoid Compliance Gaps and Implement Best Practices" is now available to Platinum Plus members of the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC)!
In today’s ambulatory settings, what you measure will be affected by your organization’s willingness to invest in the resources needed to understand and manage quality as an essential part of your business rather than as a regulatory requirement. The questions for organizations outside the...
