Effective quality controls: the credentialing process and medical staff leadership.
Two presentations given at the AMRA Annual Meeting in Denver received high praise from participants for the way in which they addressed physician-related quality assurance issues. Some of the material developed by Sue King, CMSC, who spoke on "Physician Credentialing Systems," and by William Jessee, MD, who gave a presentation entitled "Developing Medical Staff Leadership for Effective Quality Assurance," is offered to the wider JAMRA audience in the following article.
D003406:Credentialing; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D007857:Leadership; D008007:Licensure, Medical; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States