What does effective peer review look like? Get the answers with Peer Review Committee Essentials Handbook, Second Edition. This book compares and contrasts the traditional and contemporary definitions of peer review and offers strategies to...
The gender pay gap is not news. In 2016, a Forbes article pointed out that the healthcare and social assistance industry had the fourth highest...Read More »
Today’s MSPs are taking on larger volumes of work and scopes of responsibility than ever before, often without seeing equivalent gains in respect...Read More »
We continue our discussion on planning a move toward a just culture to improve patient safety. Last month we covered setting goals, educating the...Read More »
The Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986 (HCQIA) has no provision or requirement for an appellate review mechanism. However, if your...Read More »
Payments from pharmaceutical companies to physicians was associated with increased prescribing of lower-value drugs, according to a study recently...Read More »
Brock Bordelon, MD, medical director at MDReview, answers the question "How do we convince physicians to take their turns serving on the peer...Read More »
The American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted new policies recently, including prevention of bullying among healthcare professionals and...Read More »
A study of Press Ganey surveys found that patients gave higher scores to their physicians if they shared the same race/ethnicity. Eighty-eight...Read More »
One of the most important roles of a hospital’s organized medical staff is to evaluate practitioners’ credentials and make recommendations to the...Read More »
