Quality

In the past, physicians could apply to any hospital, and the chances of becoming a medical staff member and obtaining clinical...Read More »

OB hospitalist programs (aka laborist programs) are taking the country by storm. At last count, Rob ­Olson, MD, FACOG, a...Read More »

When a hospital experiences an adverse event or a near miss, it is the duty of everyone involved in the incident to find out...Read More »

If a physician doesn’t have much activity in your hospital but is active at an ambulatory clinic or surgery center, current clinical competence...Read More »

A physician is no stranger to the fact that healthcare is a team sport. A single physician cannot be responsible for the entire...Read More »

Who needs grand rounds? Physicians can just get the information they need from the Internet, right? Not so fast. Grand rounds...Read More »

Have you ever had the pleasure of a credentialing audit? You know, the process of having someone—an MSP from another facility,...Read More »

We’ve all done it—read through tedious reports filled with paragraphs of blocky text, tables, and footnotes but walked away...Read More »

It’s no secret that the current fee-for-service physician payment model is flawed. It rewards physicians for the volume of the...Read More »

Hospitalists have long been touted as the drivers of quality improvement initiatives, and one of their key tools for tracking the effectiveness...Read More »