Ask the Expert: Would a hospital's requirement that a physician meet a minimum number of procedures in order demonstrate competence hold up in court?
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, August 16, 2007
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Actually, The Joint Commission's standards and nearly all specialty societies recommend that hospitals consider education, training, and experience in their privileging delineation processes. Additionally, most hospitals now recognize the enormous value associated with the development of objective minimum criteria pertaining to each of the three items identified above. Hospitals may certainly use numerical criteria to grant clinical privileges.
This week's question is from Core Privileges: A Practical Approach to Development and Implementation, Third Edition, by Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS; Hugh P. Greeley; Beverly E. Pybus, CPMSM; and Richard A. Sheff, MD, available here.
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