Many medical staffs undergo significant redesign of their peer review programs to decrease bias and improve efficiency. While staffs typically adopt well-written policies that reflect those changes, unfortunately these programs commonly drift back to their old ways. This is often because initial...
Beyond having detailed requirements for membership, privileging criteria, and other applicable policies, FPPE and OPPE for AHPs is needed to provide an initial review of new practitioners and a sustained review of each reappointment application. Best practice is a comparative analysis of OPPE...
It has been two years since Christopher Duntsch, MD, was convicted of a felony count of injury to an elderly person and sentenced to life in prison. Duntsch, a former neurosurgeon practicing in the Dallas area between 2012 and 2013, allegedly killed or maimed as many as 35 patients in botched...
Although OPPE indicators vary widely depending on a hospital’s operational and care circumstances, clinical varieties are generally founded on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s six core competencies.
“Doctors always want to heal. They want to know what’s wrong, and they want to fix it. Yet, they are not acting as a doctor when they sit on a committee board. It is purely an administrative decision. They are not acting because the doctor in question has a spasm or a mental illness. You are...
Up-close access to industry insiders, scads of CME credits, and unrivaled night life are just a few reasons to register for the 2019 CRC Symposium, kicking off February 26 in Las Vegas.
