Being rude can affect medical performance and patient care, according to a study conducted by Tel Aviv University. Twenty-four Neonatal Intensive Care Unit teams from hospitals around Israel participated in a simulation exercise involving a premature infant suffering from necrotizing...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
A study in Academic Medicine found that students in an accelerated baccalaureate-MD program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine had similar academic performance outcomes as their peers not in the accelerated program.
Students in the accelerated program attend...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 36, Issue 16
The University of Utah Health Care is crediting a program that provides the cost of doing business for helping it to reduce its expenses over the past few year. While other academic hospitals in the area have seen costs increase an average of 2.9%, the University of Utah has had its costs...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 36
The following steps are essential to successfully developing and implementing core privileges in any organization. The assumptions in all the steps are that medical staff leaders within your organization have already examined existing privileging practices and recognize the dilemmas associated...
A membership to the Credentialing Resource Center (CRC) gives you a searchable database of continuously updated tools. Access physician specialty and subspecialty core privileging forms that are downloadable and customizable, so you can edit them to fit your medical staff’s specific needs. A CRC...
There are several ways to delineate privileges. How an organization delineates privileges will affect the information that the medical staff office will require to process privilege requests.
In a core privileging environment, appropriate members of the medical staff identify the...
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 35
Oklahoma State University will partner with six of the state’s hospitals to produce more primary care physicians for the state’s underserved communities. Once the program is fully implemented in 2021, it is expected to produce about 36 new physicians a year.
Credentialing Resource Center Digest - Volume 16, Issue 35
Two pilot programs launching this month as a collaboration between the UCLA Center for Prehospital Care, the Los Angeles Country Emergency Medical Services agency, and the Glendale and Santa Monica fire departments will expand the roles of paramedics in hopes of reducing hospital readmissions...
