Pay-per-view Proceduralists ensure compliance with specialized surgeries
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, September 18, 2007
Practice makes perfect. This is the commonsense concept behind the increasingly popular strategy of creating procedure specialists, also known as "proceduralists." This process involves designating specific doctors and nurses, rather than a range of doctors and nurses with less experience, to perform certain medical tasks.
By repeatedly performing certain procedures (e.g., collection of spinal fluid), a proceduralist gains skill at the task. He or she performs the work faster and with better clinical outcomes, on average, than those medical professionals who only occasionally perform such duties.
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