title: Use of generic screening criteria for clinical interventions that link prescribing to credentialing.
abstract: Current JCAHO standards require hospitals to link the use of drugs to prescriber credentialling. The pharmacy service at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Iowa City, Iowa, has developed a prescriber-specific program that documents clinical interventions and links that information to physician credentialling through the Pharmacist Intervention Report and associated quality assurance (QA) program. A severity index level was also developed to rate the significance of the interventions. The Pharmacist Intervention Report is used by all medical departments in their respective QA programs.
authors: VA Medical Center, Houston, TX.
authors: A L
authors: AL
authors: Mustion
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Sobotka
mesh_terms: D003406:Credentialing; D003625:Data Collection; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000592:standards*; D004363:Drug Utilization / Q000592:standards; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D007484:Iowa; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*