Proctoring and the performance of FPPE provides a valuable service to patients and the medical community. It protects patients and can help a colleague identify opportunities to improve the quality of the care he or she delivers. Many medical staff bylaws declare participation in...
Using a laundry list or a fragmented privileging system is an extremely inefficient way of complying with FPPE/OPPE requirements, often synonymous with attempting to fit a square peg in a round hole. This is true even when utilizing a privileging system that includes both core/bundle privileging...
Once the decision is made to offer APPs the opportunity to train up, the organization is now ready to determine the policy and procedures necessary to accomplish this goal. Policy considerations should include the following:
A purpose statement or objective: The organization must
Sharing peer review information between hospitals is a crucial step in helping medical staffs make informed decisions about granting clinical privileges to practitioners. However, if the disclosure process is not done carefully and appropriately, medical staffs can expose themselves to legal...
Credentialing Resource Center Journal - Volume 27, Issue 7
More medical staffs are implementing multispecialty peer review committees in the hopes of having one committee that can objectively review and assess the work of colleagues. Although there may be initial cultural resistance to this approach, having a multispecialty committee can eliminate...
