Medical Staff Essentials: Your Go-To Guide Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781599409986 ISBN-10: 1599409984 Copyright: 2017 Edition: 1st Author: The Joint Commission, Doody's Expert Review    Score: 89 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Debra DellaRatta,  MSN, CPHQ  (James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital) Description This guide to complying with The Joint Commission's medical staff standards provides a detailed description of the medical staff's roles and responsibilities. Purpose The purpose is to provide a clear, concise reference for assessing organizational compliance with the Joint Commission's medical staff standards. The book meets this purpose with examples from other organizations that illustrate their efforts in creating bylaws, credentialing and privileging processes, and tools that assess competence and performance. Audience The book exceeds the needs of the intended audience -- staff involved in medical staff standards compliance: governing bodies, organized medical staff, medical staff, accreditation/survey teams, risk management/legal counsel, performance improvement teams, and medical executive and credentialing committees. The content development manager is a subject matter expert and the reviewers are employed by The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources. Features The four chapters cover staff scope and governance, credentialing and initial appointment, the privileging process, and ensuring continuous high performance. Several appendixes provide examples, tools, medical staff standards and related standards, and a glossary of terms. The book is well organized with topics labeled as particular points, excerpts that explain, instructive infographics, and concise concepts. The electronic version allows readers to click directly on links for standards, glossary terms, examples, etc. The instructive infographics vary in color and design and enhance understanding of the elements. Assessment The book's graphics and various examples from other organizations are interesting and help readers grasp the requirements of The Joint Commission medical staff standards. I would recommend this as an added reference in accreditation departments and for medical executive committees. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 3 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 3 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 3 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 3 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 3 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book 5 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? N/A ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.