This is the third in a continuing series of articles designed for medical staff leaders and their associates. This month, we join Williams and Greeley as they discuss how to make your quality improvement process less punitive.
As a medical staff leader, you will be called upon to run meetings. Meetings are often necessary to get work done. They may be in the service of directly carrying out a key responsibility delegated to the medical staff by the governing board. Or they may be required to meet some standard of a...
Medical staffs have various documents that address how they self-govern themselves. All medical staffs are required to have medical staff bylaws. Frequently, the medical staff may also have rules and regulations, policies and procedures, or both. What is the difference between all these...
As primary care physicians and other specialists spend less time practicing at the hospital in their community, their relationships with the hospital and other practicing physicians tend to weaken. It becomes easier for competing hospitals to attract their referrals away from your hospital. To...
Medical errors can be devastating. For patients and their families, an error can be a life-altering or even fatal event. But for physicians and other healthcare professionals, a medical error can have different types of consequences.
Miscommunication is more than a problem in healthcare—it’s a massive patient risk that can cause real harm. A December 2021 report published in the Journal of Patient Safety identified communication failures in 49% of medical malpractice claims between 2001 to 2011. Of those claims, 53...