Medical staff bylaws.

Proposed changes to the hospital-medical staff relationship to improve quality of care.

Medical staff attorney Snelson answers the Colloquium's charge, "What exactly has to change in the hospital-medical staff relationship for health care quality to be improved?" Her response emphasizes the logic of having clinicians vested with authority to establish policies concerning the clinical decision-making. The article discusses the cases defining the medical staff bylaws as contractual ...

Medical Staff Bylaws, Rules and Regulations.

The organized medical staff: should anyone care anymore?

Every hospital has an organized medical staff, but of what value is this organizational construct in the current environment? Given the New World Order of quality improvement, patient safety, the malpractice crisis, and the multiple demands physicians struggle to accommodate on a daily basis, it is time to reconsider the role of the medical staff This article looks at the legal basis for the me...

Peer Review – Legal and Ethical Issues Faced by Medical Staff: The Mandate for Physician Leadership

Physicians working in hospitals face challenges when it comes to understanding and meeting the medical, legal, and ethical subjects outlined in the hospital bylaws. Hospital staff physicians and the hospital administration both aspire for high quality medical care and the assurance of patient safety. Unfortunately, when quality concerns surface, there can be reasonable differences of opinion as...

The war is on: why your medical staff needs to incorporate and obtain its own independent counsel.

In a January 31, 2003 letter to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) (Footnote 2) commenting on its proposed new standards, leaders of the hospital bar made their position clear (Footnote 3). According to them, the medical staff is not an independent, self-governing body -it is just a part of the hospital, like the dietary department. In their view, the medi...