Report recommends yearly external credentialing audits for troubled hospital
Credentialing Resource Center Connection , September 17, 2009
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Quality oversight and credentialing concerns are not limited to U.S. hospitals, as a recent Australian news report reveals. A report which examined practitioner credentialing at Bundaberg Base Hospital made six recommendations to improve practices, including one that credentialing audits be conducted yearly by someone outside of the hospital, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Cheryl Herbert, the chief executive of the commission which filed the report, stressed the importance of credentialing in a way that parallels the importance of the process in U.S. hospitals. “So of all of our standards, credentialing is one of the most critical to ensure that we are looking at not only patient safety and reducing harm but ongoing quality improvement,” she told reporters.
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