July 2000 • Volume 6 • Number 7
Copeland objects to numbers-based privileging criteria
Your hospital likely received a memorandom in May from Academy Board Chair Lanny Copeland, M.D., of Albany, Ga., regarding privileging criteria that are published by the Credentialing Resource Center in Marblehead, Mass.
The memo, addressed to hospital executives and medical staff officers of about 5,700 non-federal hospitals, highlighted AAFP's increasing concern about hospitals' blanket adoption of CRC criteria.
The AAFP says privileges should be based on individual qualifications -- documented training and/or experience, demonstrated abilities and current competence. By contrast, the CRC recommends assigning privileges based on numbers of procedures performed, a concept that is not supported by scientific evidence.
Copeland shot off the memo after the Academy heard from many FPs who objected that their medical staffs were adopting CRC criteria as written, rather than using the CRC data as a tool to draft their own local policies.
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