Medical Staff (MS) (Hospital and Hospital Clinics / Hospitals)
Focused Professional Practice Evaluation (FPPE) - Performance Criteria vs Triggers
Modify | April 11, 2016
What is the distinction between performance criteria and triggers and are there any examples?
The standard requires that criteria be developed and used for evaluating the performance of practitioners. This criteria addresses issues affecting the provision of safe, quality patient care. Triggers can be single incidents or evidence of a clinical practice trend.
Examples of
triggers may include:
- infection rates,
- sentinel events,
- perhaps complaints, and
- other events that are not sentinel.
Criteria for performance issues might include but not be limited to:
- small number of admissions or procedures over an extended period of time that raise the concern of continued competence,
- a growing number of longer lengths of stay than other practitioners,
- returns to surgery,
- frequent or repeat readmission suggesting possibly poor or inadequate initial management/treatment,
- patterns of unnecessary diagnostic testing/treatments,
- failure to follow approved clinical practice guidelines (This may or may not indicate care problems, but why is there a variance?)
- frequent or repeat readmission suggesting possibly poor or inadequate initial management/treatment,
- patterns of unnecessary diagnostic testing/treatments, and
- failure to follow approved clinical practice guidelines (This may or may not indicate care problems, but why is there a variance?)
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