Most hospitals and their medical staffs do little or nothing to prepare a staff member to proctor. This week’s quick tip is a list of things proctors should and shouldn’t do.
Do:
Inform the relevant medical staff leader who assigned you the proctor role if
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Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 6
The Ohio Court of Appeals, Eighth Appellate District (the “Court”), affirmed a lower court's judgment that a clinic could not claim peer review privilege to withhold documents it was being asked to produce in a malpractice case, nor could it claim that the documents were protected from discovery...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 6
You’ve been chipping away at it for years, and now you finally feel like you have ironed out all of the kinks in your FPPE process. It is a well-oiled machine, and even when you get questions from practitioners, you can usually find the answers. Then one day, you notice that an orthopedic...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 6
Form follows function. This phrase, coined by the man considered by many to be America’s first modern architect, Louis Sullivan, reminded his colleagues that they needed to keep in mind the intended function of a building as the key principle for its design. The same is true for peer review....
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 30, Issue 5
The California Court of Appeals, Fourth Appellate District (the "Court"), affirmed a superior court's judgment that a hospital and several physicians being sued could not invoke the anti-SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) statute because most of the defendant's claims did not...
Credentialing Resource Center needs your help! We are looking for experts in the field to tell us how their organization handles initial FPPE for low- and no-volume providers. Your tips and best practices could be featured in an upcoming article on Credentialing Resource Center. If you are...