Unfortunately, ineffective peer review can and does happen at hospitals across the country. An organization's ineffective peer review system may...Read More »
The degree to which credentials files can be protected from discovery in legal proceedings is generally a matter of state law. Most credentialing...Read More »
In most organizations, the hospital or parent institution incurs the cost of proctoring. In some locales, however, the medical staff treasury pays...Read More »
Sharing peer review information between healthcare organizations is essential to help medical staffs determine practitioners' competence and make...Read More »
Although the peer review coordinator is involved throughout the case review process, the coordinator has the primary responsibility at the...Read More »
Before sending peer review information, a medical staff should first look at state laws to ensure it has a mechanism in place to make disclosures in a confidential manner. For example, Texas allows committee-to-committee disclosures, so for medical staffs in that state, it’s a best practice to...
Accreditation organizations require medical staff services departments to perform ongoing professional practice evaluations to assess the...Read More »
When developing or fine-tuning a focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) process, consider adopting a common reporting form that allows all proctors to share their observations in a standardized manner. Such forms also help to ensure that each proctor comments on all pertinent elements...
An increasingly common mechanism is to establish a formal information-sharing agreement between the hospital medical staff and the employed physician group. These agreements allow the parties to recognize that patient safety and the effectiveness of their credentialing, privileging, and peer...
