Prospective proctoring is a powerful and greatly underutilized tool. The approach involves a one-on-one discussion with the practitioner of concern to learn how he or she will tackle a specific patient care problem and to understand his or her clinical thinking. It is a vehicle for previewing...
Peer review ensures that a hospital assesses the performance of individuals granted clinical privileges via the activities of its medical staff, and uses the results of such assessments to improve care. This free resource is a sample form for documenting OPPE results from ...
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...
This free resource comes from The Medical Executive Committee Manual. Since the leadership skill set is not routinely taught in the medical education process, the medical executive committee...
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 »
The telemedicine market is expected to more than double over the next five years, climbing from nearly $20 billion today to almost $50 billion in...Read More »
