The joint commission practice performance evaluation: a primer for radiologists.
As health care quality continues to move into the limelight, so do physicians. The new Joint Commission requirements (Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation) mandate continuous data-based evaluation and monitoring of physician practice performance. This task could be seen as cumbersome, but it may provide opportunities to develop quality improvement programs that demonstrate the value provided by hospital-based radiologists.
Department of Interventional Radiology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030-4009, USA. jsteele1@mdanderson.org
Joseph R
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Steele
David M
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Hovsepian
Don F
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Schomer
D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011871:Radiology / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States