What the new JCAH medical staff standard may portend.
Have hospital medical staffs been caught unawares by a more permissive medical staff standard? Is chaos inevitable in light of the new standard? No on both counts, says the author, although reconfiguring medical staffs to adapt to changes in the health care field is a time-consuming process of evolution.
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