Guidelines for reviewing applications for privileges.
Although final authority for granting medical staff membership lies with a hospital's governing body, the medical staff plays a major role in such decision making. Medical staff reviewers need to examine each medical staff application with a critical eye in order to keep performance standards high.
D003406:Credentialing / Q000592:standards*; D007325:Institutional Practice / Q000592:standards; D008504:Medical Staff Privileges / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States