Ontario Hospital Association proposes to scuttle privileges model for doctors

Hospital Medical Staff Privileges

Methods of granting hospital privileges to perform gastrointestinal endoscopy.

This is one of a series of statements discussing the utilization of gastrointestinal endoscopy in common clinical situations. The Standards of Practice Committee of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy prepared this text. In preparing this guideline, a MEDLINE literature search was performed, and additional references were obtained from the bibliographies of the identified articl...

Denial of Hospital Privileges: Antitrust Implications

A: It is possible, but unlikely in most circumstances, that the antitrust laws will provide an effective remedy for exclusion from hospital privileges. Determining whether an antitrust violation exists in any particular case will be very fact-specific and depend on a number of circumstances, including who ultimately controls the privilege decisions, the purpose of the exclusion, and the resulti...

A working model for the extraordinary review of clinical privileges for doctors and dentists in the Australian Capital Territory.

The extraordinary (unplanned) review of clinical privileges is the means by which an organisation can manage specific complaints about individual practitioners' clinical competence that require immediate investigation. To date, the extraordinary review of clinical privileges for doctors and dentists has not been the subject of much research and there is a pressing need for the evaluation and re...

Physician-hospital Relations: the Role of Staff Privileges

The continual changes and conflicts in the relationships between physicians and hospitals are almost psychedelic. At one moment they make sweet music, only to degenerate abruptly into a cacophony of sound and light. The changes are the result of a widely varied series of pressures not only upon the individual physicians and hospitals but affecting the entire system of health care. Many people a...