One way to encourage physician proctoring is to make it a medical staff expectation—either informally through your culture or formally through your medical staff governance documents. At St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California, the medical staff rules and regulations and bylaws make...
This checklist will help medical staffs select indicators for use in OPPE/FPPE. Indicators should be evaluated for validity, accuracy, benefits, attribution, communicability, competency, and data availability. Keep in mind that some indicators will be more relevant than others based on specialty...
Most medical staffs and healthcare organizations have found it challenging to find physicians willing and available to proctor colleagues. In hospital settings, many medical staffs overcome these barriers by making proctoring an obligation of staff membership. Usually, this is facilitated by a...
In most cases, it is useful but not required to have a specialty-to-specialty match. There are many observations regarding clinical practice that...Read More »
Q: Are employed physicians who have been granted privileges subject to the organized medical staff’s clinical case review portion of the ongoing...Read More »
Today’s free resource is a sample reappointment OPPE scorecard courtesy of Beebe Healthcare, a nonprofit community hospital in Lewes, Delaware,...Read More »
Identifying red flags within credentialing applications can be the first step to protecting yourself and your facility from a successful plaintiff litigation. In this 90-minute webinar, expert Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS, discusses ways to recognize issues within a...
In 2015, the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) quietly updated its guidelines. In this 90-minute webinar, expert Todd Sagin, MD, JD, reviews the new guidelines, which include expanded definitions of “investigations” that can trigger reports to the NPDB. Attendees also learn...
This week, CRC Daily covers ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE). The frequency with which a medical staff services department...Read More »