Medical Staff Articles by Topic: Peer Review
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
Physicians have reviewed case charts from their first days of medical school, but they are rarely...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
When determining what data to collect to evaluate physician competence, it is critical that the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 45, November 4, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 43, October 21, 2009
In most organizations, the hospital or parent institution incurs the cost of focused professional...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 14, 2009
A recent poll on HCPro.com reveals that more hospitals conduct centralized peer review compared to...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
If you read news reports of the troubled brachytherapy program at the Philadelphia VA Medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
Perception data differ from clinical data in that it is based on how others view our performance in...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, September 30, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
Legislators are considering making peer review laws uniform throughout the state rather than...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 2, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 32, August 5, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Hospitalist Leadership Connection, Issue 30, July 28, 2009
There’s still time to enter this month’s contest for two free seats at the Greeley...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 28, July 8, 2009
The Supreme Court of Georgia in June ruled that plaintiffs who bring negligent credentialing...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
You’ve designed a physician reporting mechanism and are getting ready to distribute your...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2009
The first three weeks of each month, this weekly column from The Greeley Company will address...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 24, June 17, 2009
In the June 4 issue of MS Leader Connection, we reported that hospitals aren’t reporting to...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 22, June 3, 2009
I recently attended a peer review committee meeting, during which I learned that the quality...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
When the medical staff was confused about the two types of FPPE, the chief of surgery suggested...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 6, June 1, 2009
How familial relationships work in real life, especially with conflict of interest on the top of...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 18, May 6, 2009
Some of the most dramatic movie scenes involve a jury deliberating the fate of a defendant. In...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
In most cases, 360-degree evaluations are used to assess residents, but they can be easily adapted...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
There may be times when you might want a more in-depth scrutiny of a physician’s...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 17, April 29, 2009
Medical staff leaders are often daunted at the prospect of engaging and paying outside peer...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Today, many MCOs do not require practitioners to hold clinical privileges or be on the medical...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 13, April 1, 2009
Many people are not aware that former heavy-weight boxing champion George Foreman has 10...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 11, March 18, 2009
A lack of precision should not prevent the reasonable interpretation of physician performance data...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 10, March 10, 2009
If your hospital's risk management department defers cases to the medical staff peer review...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 6, February 11, 2009
When defining indicators to measure physician competence, medical staffs have stumbled on the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 3, January 21, 2009
The primary question a physician reviewer is trying to answer is whether a physician’s...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
When the Joint Commission introduced focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE), it greatly...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 2, January 14, 2009
In 2007, The Joint Commission gave hospital medical staffs a gift: a framework to measure quality...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 1, January 7, 2009
With the 2009 Joint Commission leadership standards calling for organizations to create a culture...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 48, December 17, 2008
External peer review isn’t appropriate for all situations, but at times, it can be the...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 10, 2008
Because the use of perception data is new territory for most physicians, it is critical for...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 47, December 10, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, shares why M&M conferences are...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 12, December 1, 2008
It seems as if every time you pick up the newspaper, another hospital is under fire for negligent...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 12, 2008
When defining physician competency measures, make sure physicians are involved. Afterall, if...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 12, 2008
Although peer review may seem like it would be considered perception data, our experts say...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 44, November 12, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., in...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 11, November 1, 2008
If the Florida Supreme Court’s March decision to make all physician peer review information...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 42, October 29, 2008
Sometimes the best way to understand something is to understand what it is not. When bringing new...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 40, October 10, 2008
Mary Hoppa, MD, MBA, CMSL, senior consultant with The Greeley Company, gives small hosptials some...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 39, October 8, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, vice president of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. in...
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Medical Staff Briefing, Issue 10, October 1, 2008
Editor's note: This article is the last in our series aimed at providing medical staffs with...
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Medical Staff Leader Connection, Issue 36, September 10, 2008
Robert Marder, MD, CMSL, shares a case study from a new book he co-authored with Jonathan H...