The updated National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) Guidebook was published in April 2015. The revised edition expanded parameters for reporting...Read More »
As medical staff professionals, we never seem to run out of challenges—or, as the optimists among us may call them, “opportunities.” Some of these...Read More »
There are going to be trade-offs with any age thresholds that are set — start too early and do lots of testing that turns out to be unnecessary,...Read More »
If certain privileging-related requirements, such as possession of board certification, current licensure, and professional liability coverage, apply to all or the vast majority of medical staff members, consider defining them in the medical staff bylaws as “general qualifications for membership...
“The difficulty with local peer review is that there is the possibility that a group of young surgeons may have an incentive to declare an older...Read More »
