Work-product privilege is a type of peer review protection law that prevents information associated with the peer review process from being discovered in court. This protection is based on the idea that physicians won’t candidly discuss a colleague’s shortcomings if their statements later could...
The Joint Commission (TJC) standards call for an objective, evidence-based process when deciding whether to grant or deny a privilege(s) or to renew existing ones. Criteria must be consistently evaluated to determine a practitioner’s ability to provide patient care, treatment, and services...
It’s estimated that around 1,500 surgeries each year end with a retained surgical item (RSI). These patients often experience frequent infections, pain, bowel blockage, and other complications—and to add insult to injury, patients then need to be operated on again to remove the RSI.
The American Medical Association, Pennsylvania Medical Society, and Manatt Health released the first set of results in a series of studies examining state responses to opioid abuse; these particular results focused on the efforts made in Pennsylvania. The results reveal that access to evidence-...
