HCPro is proud to bring you Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Practical Approaches to Verifying Physician Competence. This book is designed to help develop or strengthen proctoring or FPPE programs at your facility. Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation provides the ideal foundation for hospitals in dealing with the new material represented in the JCAHO s MS.4.30 on focused professional practice evaluation. With new techniques and equipment becoming available at a rapid rate, ensure that your medical staff physicians are qualified to practice in their respective specialty areas and perform the procedures for which they request privileges.

Proctoring and Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Practical Approaches to Verifying Physician Competence

Medical Books

Robert J. Marder, MD

Todd Sagin, MD, JD

Mark A. Smith, MD

Administration & Medicine Economics

HCPro

Get the knowledge needed to serve as an effective Credentials Committee Member and fulfill the role well.  The Credentials Committee Essentials Handbook clarifies the critical role of the credential committee member and their responsibilities in relation to MEC, quality committee, and department chairs. With this handbook credentialing committee members can over come the challenges of insufficient leadership training and equip them with the information they need to serve as an effective committee member throughout their appointment.   Plus, to make staff training easy, this handbook includes a customizable PowerPoint® presentation highlighting key takeaways covered in the handbook.  Benefits of Credentials Committee Essentials Handbook:  Earn CE and certification credits Assess, document, and comply with The Joint Commission’s core competencies Verify the competence of advance practice professionals and allied health professionals Understand the role of physician leaders in focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE), ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE), and peer review Overcome challenges presented by low- and no-volume providers and legal issues such as negligent credentialing Avoid costly, time-consuming fair hearings Oversee professional conduct and confront disruptive behavior  What’s inside:  State the four steps of credentialing by the MEC, governing board, department chairs, committees, and medical staff leaders  Identify the role of the credentials committee member in relation to the MEC, quality committee, and department chairs  Explain what focused professional practice evaluation is and is not  Summarize the medical staff response to a physician requesting new technology privileges  Identify two targets to create three performance levels  Describe the strategic and competency goals of low- and no-volume providers, impaired physicians, and aging physicians  Name the primary drivers of privileging disputes  Describe the credentials committee's role in managing disruptive physician behavior  Derive strategies to streamline credentials committee meetings  Table of Contents Chapter 1. Principles of effective credentialing and privileging Chapter 2. Roles and responsibilities for credentialing Chapter 3. FPPE for new privileges Chapter 4. Privileges for new technology Chapter 5. Effective data-driven reappointments Chapter 6. Reappointment challenges: Low- and no-volume providers, impaired physicians, and aging physicians Chapter 7. Privileging disputes and turf battles Chapter 8. Credentials committee role in professional conduct Chapter 9: Effective credentials committee meetings

Credentials Committee Essentials Handbook

Richard A. Sheff MD

HCPro, Inc.

Get the knowledge needed to serve as an effective Department Chair and fulfill the role well. The Department Chair Essentials Handbook offers valuable insight into the role of the Department Chair and provides expert guidance for fulfilling your responsibilities. Whether you are newly assuming this role or have been in it for a while, this handbook can help you reach a deeper understanding of your duties. Get the information, knowledge and skills you need to excel at this critical role and bring your collaboration and strategic planning to the next level. Plus, to make staff training easy, this handbook includes a customizable PowerPoint® presentation highlighting key takeaways covered in the handbook. Benefits of Department Chair Essentials Handbook: <ul>
<li>Earn CE and certification credits</li> <li>Assess, document, and comply with The Joint Commission’s core competencies</li> <li>Verify the competence of advance practice professionals and allied health professionals</li> <li>Understand the role of physician leaders in focused professional practice evaluation (FPPE), ongoing professional practice evaluation (OPPE), and peer review</li> <li>Overcome challenges presented by low- and no-volume providers and legal issues such as negligent credentialing</li> <li>Avoid costly, time-consuming fair hearings</li> <li>Oversee professional conduct and confront disruptive behavior</li> </ul>
What’s inside: <ul>
<li>Describe the relationship of the board, administration, and medical staff</li> <li>Describe the dimensions of physician performance</li> <li>Define the department chair's role in credentialing and privileging in relation to the MEC and credentials and peer review committees</li> <li> Explain the department chair's role in OPPE and FPPE</li> <li>State steps to balance department chair's role and interests that he or she represents</li> <li>Describe the department chair's role in managing disruptive physician behavior</li> <li>Derive strategies to streamline department meetings </li> </ul>
Table of Contents Chapter 1. Roles and responsibilities of the department chair Chapter 2. The Power of the Pyramid: How to achieve great practitioner performance Chapter 3. The department chair’s role in credentialing and privileging Chapter 4. The department chair’s role in peer review, quality, and patient safety Chapter 5. The department chair’s role in strategic planning and collaboration Chapter 6. The department chair’s role in managing poor performance and unprofessional conduct

Department Chair Essentials Handbook

HCPRO

Inc.

Looking for metrics and real-world processes to assess your peer review program? Peer Review Benchmarking: Pursuing Medical Staff Excellence offers the tools you need to analyze and redesign your peer review processes. Ten organizations of varying scope and size share their journey of revitalizing their disparate peer review programs into high-functioning and engaging physician performance assessment programs. Learn how these organizations implemented multispecialty peer review committees, taught committee members how to conduct reviews outside of their specialty, found physician champions to change the medical staff culture regarding peer review, aligned their case review and OPPE metrics to become more succinct and highlight physician achievements, and many other issues that can negatively affect peer review.
This book will also help you quantify your peer review data to measure the success of peer review at your organization and how to best share this information with various departments and committees. This data can be used to determine what elements of your peer review process you need to redesign and the case studies will give you real-world ideas on how to do so. 
This book will help you improve your peer review program by: 
<li>Integrating redesign of hospital peer review structures for fairness, efficiency, and effectiveness</li> <li>Reducing bias in case review and OPPE</li> <li>Enhancing organizational sharing of peer review information to improve patient care</li> <li>Determining the best structure for your peer review committee</li>

Peer Review Benchmarking: Pursuing Medical Staff Excellence

Peer review continues to rate as a top challenge in healthcare organizations. Even if they are meeting regulatory standards, organizations struggle to develop a peer review program that is unbiased and meaningful, making it difficult to change physicians' punitive view of the process.
Now in its fourth edition, Effective Peer Review has been significantly updated and revised, providing even more practical details and policies to help medical staffs reduce peer review bias and implement an approach focused on performance improvement. The book addresses ways to enhance all of the components of a successful competency assessment program, from case review to OPPE and FPPE, with entire chapters dedicated to medical staff culture, multispecialty peer review, and avoiding peer review pitfalls.
New to this edition are chapters that tackle case review from all angles, with detailed guides for peer review coordinators, physician reviewers, and peer review committees. There are also policies for successful OPPE, updated metrics to help measure the effectiveness of your program for case review and OPPE, and guidance on reporting results to the medical executive committee and the board. This edition also looks at how the changing healthcare landscape is affecting competence assessment, such as how to conduct peer review on a healthcare team or outside of the traditional hospital walls.
This book provides: 
<li> Practical, proven techniques to eliminate bias and develop meaningful physician performance improvement opportunities </li>
<li> A detailed guide to creating a dynamic multispecialty peer review committee </li>
<li> Proven methods for conducting meaningful case review from case identification to committee decision and follow-up </li>
<li> Case studies from the field to illustrate key concepts </li>
<li> A step-by-step guide for peer review self-assessment and redesign </li>
<li> Approaches to engage physicians in the peer review process </li>
<li> National Practitioner Data Bank reporting requirements and other regulations related to peer reviewThis updated edition includes: 
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<li> How to conduct case review from every position: peer review coordinator, physician reviewer, and peer review committee </li>
<li> Metrics to measure the effectiveness of your peer review program </li>
<li> Information on conducting peer review with a healthcare team </li>
<li> Sample policies, forms, and procedures for case review, OPPE, and FPPE </li>
<li> New and expanded case studiesContents:
 Chapter 1: Peer Review: Why Do We Need to Evaluate Physician Competence? Chapter 2: Avoiding Peer Review Pitfalls: Conflicts of Interest, M&amp;Ms, RCAs, and Sham Peer Reviews Chapter 3: From Punitive to Positive: Creating a Performance Improvement Culture for Peer Review Chapter 4: Legal Considerations and Risk Management: Impact of Regulations and Liability on Peer Review Chapter 5: Peer Review Structures: The Impact of Multispecialty Peer Review Chapter 6: Measuring Physician Performance: What to Measure and How to Do It Fairly Chapter 7: Case Review: A Brief Overview for Reducing Bias and Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness Chapter 8: Case Review Part 1 Chapter 9: Case Review Part 2 Chapter 10: Case Review Part 3 Chapter 11: Selecting Physician-Driven Measures for OPPE: Chapter 12: The Role of Healthcare Teams in Competency Measurement Chapter 13: Evaluating OPPE Data: Using Benchmarks and Targets for OPPE Reports Chapter 14: From OPPE to FPPE: Creating Accountability for Physician Performance Improvement Chapter 15: Reporting Peer Review: Who Needs to Know and What You Should Tell Them Chapter 16: Beyond the Hospital Walls Chapter 17: Redesigning or Tuning Up Your Program
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Effective Peer Review, Fourth Edition