Although ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) has been around for about a decade, it is still challenging for institutions to create meaningful data that reflects their practices. This sample advance practice professional reappointment performance profile report that can be used to...
Although external peer review is seldom required in most organizations, it is nonetheless important to have a policy in place should the need...Read More »
Establishing a structure for reviewing OPPE reports can be challenging, especially given that the process requires the resource-intensive and time-consuming task of interpreting data. The medical staff drives the OPPE process; however, medical staff leaders often do not have adequate time to...
Aligning or integrating quality and medical staff services functions can promote earlier detection of systemic shortcomings that affect a hospital...Read More »
Finding that documents gathered, used, and generated during a hospital’s root cause analysis (RCA) process were privileged from disclosure, the...Read More »
In response to growing concerns with the nationwide rate of physician burnout, Stanford Medicine is the first U.S. academic medical center to...Read More »
“Physicians have more control over our lifestyles than we believe. We may feel stuck, trapped in situations we don’t like, but in truth, most of...Read More »
To address the shortage of physicians in Missouri, a recently passed bill would ease the qualifications for medical school graduates to practice...Read More »
