Tip of the week: Develop an approach to address aging physicians
Credentialing Resource Center Connection, August 23, 2007
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In addressing privileges, medical staffs are obliged to assess each practitioner's capacity to perform all requested privileges. As physicians and other practitioners age, both the natural aging process as well as specific diseases have the potential to adversely impact these clinicians' capacity to perform some or all of their requested privileges. Therefore, medical staffs are obliged to establish an approach to assessing the impact of aging on all practitioners' capacity to perform requested privileges. However, no national consensus has developed concerning the best approach to the challenge of aging physicians.
This tip was taken from the "Physician Health and Aging: Credentialing and Privileging" presentation by Carol Cairns, CPMSM, CPCS and Sally Pelletier, CPMSM, CPCS at The 10th Annual Credentialing Resource Center Symposium in 2007.
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