Oftentimes, medical staffs suffer from a punitive or indifferent peer review culture. The good news is that peer review culture can indeed change to one that supports physician improvement and the pursuit of excellence. However, although policies can change quickly, true culture change is slow,...
Most accreditation bodies now require medical staffs to subject applicants with newly granted privileges to some type of FPPE. Some accrediting organizations see this as an important capstone to the process of initial appointment, and knowledgeable plaintiff attorneys often seek documentation of...
Work-product privilege is a type of peer review protection law that prevents information associated with the peer review process from being discovered in court. This protection is based on the idea that physicians won’t candidly discuss a colleague’s shortcomings if their statements later could...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 33, Issue 3
Ensuring you have competent physicians who are providing high-quality care is essential to the success of any healthcare organization. To evaluate physician care, hospitals and medical staffs have spent years developing their peer review processes. CMS and other major accreditors all require...
General case review indicators should represent significant clinical outcomes or critical processes for which physicians are partially or completely responsible and therefore represent potential improvement opportunities. It is important to make sure that the general review indicators cover all...
In the second half of the 20th century, concepts and methods for quality measurement and improvement changed dramatically. In the 1960s and 1970s, peer review was mainly based on clinical audits, which took a clinical outcome, such as mortality, and inspected...
