title: Physician relations: an evolving service not meeting its potential.
abstract: The relatively new concept of physician relations can help hospitals work with their medical staff as colleagues rather than competitors. Every hospital has someone performing at least some physician relation tasks, but too often that person is at the level of an administrative assistant. Only a few hospitals have full-blown physician relations departments with full responsibility for medical staff relations, quality assurance, credentialing and medical liability.
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authors: M
authors: Biddix
mesh_terms: D005431:Florida; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D006745:Hospital Bed Capacity, 300 to 499; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D016730:Program Development