Ongoing professional practice evaluation: Do you have the tools for a continuous process?
The Joint Commission now requires ongoing competency evaluation.
With the introduction of The Joint Commission’s requirement for ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE) and focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE) in 2007, it is no longer sufficient to gather and evaluate performance improvement data solely at reappointment and when re-granting privileges.
Do you understand the requirements?
Unfortunately, the requirements are not precisely clear on what data hospitals must evaluate, nor do they delineate the frequency at which hospitals must conduct the monitoring. It is up to the individual institution to determine what data to monitor and how to use it effectively.
Get the tools you need to meet the new OPPE requirements.
Written for medical staff leaders, medical services professionals, and quality professionals, Measuring Physician Competency: How to Collect, Assess, and Provide Performance Data, Second Edition, provides you with a step-by-step process to create physician competency reports for measuring individual physician performance.
With this book and CD-ROM set, you’ll be able to:
- Facilitate physician acceptance of data use to measure competency
- Set benchmarks and targets for competency data
- Create and distribute physician competency reports
- Link competency reports to privileging
- Use competency reports in conjunction with OPPE
Learn from this step-by-step guide.
Based on its successful previous edition (10 Steps to Successful Physician Profiling), Measuring Physician Competency not only explains how to build physician competency reports; it also includes updated content on how to comply with the latest regulatory requirements.
Understand both the “how” and the “why.”
In addition to providing a road map to successful physician competency reports, this updated practical guide explains how OPPE provides a more objective- and evidence-based privileging process. Using OPPE, hospitals can use data to evaluate practitioners and, if necessary, intervene if there are issues that negatively affect the provision of safe patient care. This book and CD-ROM set will point you in the right direction.
This updated, how-to resource:
- Gives you a step-by-step guide to build physician competency reports, including a sample report with suggested indicators and targets
- Helps you remain in compliance with updates on The Joint Commission’s requirement for OPPE and FPPE, including tips on creating a proctoring policy
- Clarifies the requirements with expanded discussion of perception measures for general competencies and benchmarking
- Saves you time with tested strategies for using physician competency reports in the privileging process
- Simplifies the process with tips for developing a competency database
Improve performance and streamline processes.
If your hospital can truly measure physician performance, you can streamline your reappointment process, meet regulatory requirements, ensure physicians deliver quality care, and reduce medical liability risk. Measuring Physician Competency gives you the tools to make it happen.
Check out the table of contents:
Chapter 1: Why we measure physician competence
Chapter 2: Creating a medical staff culture of physician data acceptance
Chapter 3: Measuring physician performance: Understanding indicator types
Chapter 4: Perception data as a source of physician competency measures
Chapter 5: Selecting measures for your competency expectations
Chapter 6: Setting benchmarks and targets for competency data
Chapter 7: Practical principles for competency report design
Chapter 8: Preparing and distributing competency data reports
Chapter 9: Software challenges and solutions
Chapter 10: Linking competency reports to privileging
Chapter 11: Using competency reports in conjunction with FPPE
Chapter 12: External approaches to physician competency reports
Chapter 13: 10 steps to physician competency reports
CD-ROM includes two sample physician competency report templates, including indicators & targets.
Who will benefit?
Directors of medical staff offices, vice presidents of medical affairs, medical staff presidents, medical executive committee members, credentials committee chairs and members, committee and department chairs, quality professionals, survey coordinators, medical staff services professionals, and other credentialing professionals
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