After you’ve maneuvered your way through the complicated ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) process, from selecting indicators to assigning proctors, don’t forget the last hurdle: deciding how to distribute those data to practitioners.
Fine wine might ripen with age, but peer review processes left alone for decades go sour. This is the lesson that Tucson (AZ) Medical Center (TMC) learned when its department-based peer review process became so punitive and ineffective that some physicians stopped performing specific procedures...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 19, Issue 3
Throughout the “Fair Hearings 101” series, CPRLI has covered various aspects of the fair hearing process, from what language medical staffs need to include in the bylaws to how to choose the right hearing panel members. Although these topics are important, medical staff leaders...
Last month, CPRLI discussed the importance of choosing the right hearing panel members to ensure an unbiased hearing process. We covered three of eight best practices to help medical staffs answer questions they should ask themselves throughout the hearing process: “Are we doing...