Verify physician competence, ensure patient safety, and communicate expectations for medical staff physicians.
Hospitals are increasingly using proctoring to create and verify physician competence for two key reasons: regulators are requiring facilities to establish physicians’ competence through data; and the public, regulators, and hospitals themselves are sharply focused on improving patient safety.
Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE)—the Joint Commission’s new label for proctoring—must be applied for all initially requested privileges and when issues affecting the provision of safe, high-quality patient care are identified.
Manage poor performance
One way to allow practitioners to demonstrate their proficiency in a practice area or their competence in performing a certain procedure is to emphasize that credentialing and privileging decisions are made in part based on the results of appropriate oversight and supervision—that is, proctoring. With such conditional permissions comes the need for your organization to establish a sound system to appropriately monitor and document the performance of practitioners to ensure quality and safety.
HCPro is proud to bring you Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Practical Approaches to Verifying Physician Competence. This book is designed to help develop or strengthen proctoring or FPPE programs at your facility.
Properly assess physician competency
Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation contains sample policies and forms you can customize to your facility to save you time and energy. This book covers
- developing a process and setting policy
- the legal issues surrounding proctoring
- managing the data and documentation of physician competency
- the 10-step process to create proctoring programs
- when proctoring is triggered
- who should proctor
- the recommended duration and documentation of proctoring
Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation provides the ideal foundation for hospitals in dealing with the new material represented in the Joint Commission’s MS.4.30 on focused professional practice evaluation.
With new techniques and equipment becoming available at a rapid rate, ensure that your medical staff physicians are qualified to practice in their respective specialty areas and perform the procedures for which they request privileges. Place your order today!
Who should read this book?
Medical directors, vice presidents of medical affairs, medical staff leaders, medical staff professionals, quality directors and managers, physician educators, risk management professionals, medical executive committee members, credentials committee menbers
About the team that brings you Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation
Robert J. Marder, MD
Vice president and practice director of quality and patient safety at The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc.
Mark A. Smith, MD, MBA, FACS
Senior consultant with The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc., and a practicing vascular and general surgeon in Palm Springs, CA.
Todd Sagin, MD, JD
Vice president and national medical director of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc.
HCPro, Inc.
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