A common mistake many medical staff services departments (MSSD) make is to combine a physician’s clinical evaluation request and the hospital...Read More »
The traditional arrangement when a physician applies for clinical privileges at a health system is that the medical staff services department...Read More »
Although it is important for the committee to review the entire credentials file, having a summary form with key elements can call attention to issues that require additional discussion. Suppose an applicant has had hospital privileges suspended, but he or she fails to note this fact on the...
When interviewing new applicants, it is often useful to use a structured interview form. This form should be modified to reflect the issues that are important to your hospital.
This allows the people conducting the interview to do the folloiwng, as well as so much more:
It is sometimes difficult to tell how much work a committee is doing until it summarizes its accomplishments. In many hospitals, the functions of the credentials committee go far beyond the review of new appointees to the medical staff. They include reappointments, review of new requests for...
When we present information to a committee, we are attempting to transmit the information as well as receive a response in return. A lack of...Read More »
The credentials committee is perhaps one of the hardest working committees. Most physicians who agree to participate in a credentials committee do...Read More »
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is highlighting the need to reduce regulatory burdens in healthcare, the president of a physician...Read More »
