Credentialing & Privileging

Avoid three pitfalls common to the core privileging method

Credentialing and Peer Review Legal Insider, July 1, 2008

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Criteria-based core privileging is a clinical privilege delineation method now used by a majority of healthcare organizations nationwide. However, as core privileging becomes more prevalent, some common problems are emerging.

All of these problems can be rectified, even prevented, by designing your facility’s core privileges carefully and with thoughtful input, and by building some flexibility into the system.

Stated simply, core privileging is a process by which a facility grants a practitioner clinical privileges to perform a group of procedures or to conduct a group of clinical activities/services based on his or her education, training, and experience in a specialty or subspecialty.

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