OPPE's connection to medical staff reappointment requires MSPs to get behind the wheel

In some hospitals, MSPs collect ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) data and help orchestrate the entire process. In other hospitals, the quality department owns OPPE, and MSPs simply disseminate the reports to practitioners. Regardless of how involved they are, MSPs should understand how OPPE works because the ongoing measurement and evaluation of a physician’s performance directly correlates to the reappointment and privileging process—MSPs’ domain.

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