Hospital credentialing and quality of care

• Published in: Social science & medicine (1982) Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 77 - 88
• Main Authors: Sloan, Frank A, Conover, Christopher J, Provenzale, Dawn
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 2000; Elsevier; Pergamon Press Inc
• Series: Social Science & Medicine
• Subjects: Accreditation; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Biological and medical sciences; Certification; Certification Clinical competence Cholecystectomy Laparascopic Intraoperative complications Surgery Medical licensure United States; Child; Child, Preschool; Cholecystectomy; Clinical competence; Clinical outcomes; Credentialing; Female; General aspects; Health care; Health services; Health Services Research; Health systems. Social services; Hospital management; Hospital Mortality; Hospitals; Hospitals, Community - standards; Humans; Infant; Intraoperative complications; Laparascopic; Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data; Licenses; Logistic Models; Male; Medical licensure; Medical sciences; Medical Staff Privileges - standards; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; North Carolina; Outcome Assessment (Health Care) - organization & administration; Outcomes; Postoperative Complications - etiology; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Quality of Health Care; Quality of service; Relationship; Surgery; Surgical Procedures, Operative - adverse effects; Surgical Procedures, Operative - mortality; Surgical Procedures, Operative - standards; Surveys and Questionnaires; Treatment Outcomes; U.S.A; United States; USA; Workforce; Clinical competence; Cholecystectomy; Intraoperative complications; Medical licensure; United States; Surgery; Laparascopic; Certification; Human; Postoperative; Health system; Evaluation; Prognosis; Health staff; Health service; Indicator; Care; Quality assurance; Hospital organization; Professional practice; Quality; Accreditation; Public health

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of hospital credentialing standards on surgical outcomes for selected procedures. The study used hospital credentialing practices from a 1996 survey of North Carolina community hospitals, with surgical outcomes derived from a statewide database of...