Medical Staff

Process, tools, and strategies for getting the performance data you need

Medical Staff Briefing, August 1, 2010

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When it comes to medical staff peer review, few areas are stickier than conducting ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) for low- and no-volume practitioners. Medical staffs already struggle to collect data from numerous sources to assess the competence of high-volume practitioners, and the struggle becomes even more difficult when physicians visit the hospital only once or twice per year. 

Medical staffs must do their best to determine low-volume practitioners’ competence, but many work with a less-than-ideal amount of data. Some data come from internal documentation, such as medical records. Other data may come from an outside facility where a practitioner is active. Regardless, the goal is to collect enough data to make an accurate judgment of a practitioner’s competence.

 

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